⚓ Splash247 Shipping News Scraper

Turn the Splash247 maritime news feed into flat rows: headline, link, publication date, author, section tags and the feed summary. No account, no API key, no login.

Splash247 covers shipping: tankers, dry cargo, containers, shipyards, ports, finance. Its public RSS feed is the fastest way to see what moved today, and RSS is not something a spreadsheet reads. This Actor pulls the feed, applies a title filter if you give it one, and writes one row per article into a dataset you can open, schedule and diff.

Who uses it	What they use the feed for
💼 Buyers of marine and logistics businesses	Watching yard, fleet and operator news for the names on a target list
📈 Shipping finance and chartering desks	Keeping a dated, searchable record of sector news instead of an inbox
🔍 Diligence analysts	Building a timeline of what was published about a counterparty and when
🤖 Newsroom and agent workflows	Feeding a summariser or an alert rule with structured rows rather than HTML

📋 What it does

💡 Why it matters: a name that appears three times in a sector feed in one month is a signal. That is only visible once the feed is a table you can sort.

• 📰 Reads the public Splash247 RSS feed and returns one row per article.
• 🔎 Filters by title substring with query, so a run can track a single vessel type, yard or company name.
• 🏷 Section tags come through as a list, for example Containers, Tankers, Shipyards, Japan.
• 🖊 Author and publication date on every row, so the dataset sorts and dedupes cleanly.
• 🔗 A direct link to each article.
• 🔁 Point it at another feed. feedUrl defaults to the main feed and accepts a category feed instead.
• 💾 Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON or XML, from the run page or the API.

📊 Output

Every article is one flat row with 8 fields.

Field	Type	Description
📰 title	string	Article headline as published
🔗 link	string	Direct link to the article on splash247.com
📅 pubDate	string	Publication date in RFC 822 form, for example Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000
🖊 author	string	Byline, for example Adis Ajdin. Splash on staff pieces
🏷 categories	array	Section and region tags on the article
📄 summary	string	The excerpt the feed publishes, not the full article. It ends where the feed truncates it, and carries the feed's own HTML entities such as …
🕒 scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp of collection
⚠️ error	string	null on a normal row

summary is the RSS excerpt. Follow link if you need the whole piece.

Example rows

{
  "title": "Shipping’s crystal ball cracks in the 2020s",
  "link": "https://splash247.com/shippings-crystal-ball-cracks-in-the-2020s/",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:53:07 +0000",
  "author": "Splash",
  "categories": [
    "Containers",
    "Contributions",
    "Dry Cargo",
    "Gas",
    "Tankers"
  ],
  "summary": "Shipping has long been treated as an early warning system for the world economy. In an era of wars, rerouting, services and AI, the relationship is becoming far harder to read. Splash investigates whether this old adage rings true still, or even if it ever did. For decades, shipping has enjoyed a reputation as one …",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T16:25:16.400Z",
  "error": null
}

{
  "title": "Tokyo adds $635m to shipyard revival push",
  "link": "https://splash247.com/tokyo-adds-635m-to-shipyard-revival-push/",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000",
  "author": "Adis Ajdin",
  "categories": [
    "Asia",
    "Shipyards",
    "Japan"
  ],
  "summary": "Japan has approved a second wave of investment plans under its shipbuilding revival fund, allocating up to another ¥98bn ($635m) in state support across five yard groups. The transport ministry has cleared projects from Oshima Shipbuilding, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, the Shin Kurushima group, Naikai Zosen and Mitsubishi Shipbuilding. Maximum subsidies stand at about ¥6.1bn ($40m) …",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-09-14T16:25:16.513Z",
  "error": null
}

CSV and Excel exports flatten categories into columns. Export JSON if you want the list intact.

✨ Why choose this Actor

	What you get
A table, not an inbox	Dated rows with author and tags sort, filter and dedupe. A newsletter does none of that.
No credentials	The feed is public. No account, no key, no quota.
Filter at the source	query matches a title substring during the run, so you pay for the articles you asked for.
Your own archive	Schedule the run and you keep the history, rather than depending on how far back the feed reaches.
You pay per row	No subscription. A filter that matches nothing costs nothing.

🚀 How to use it

1. Create a free Apify account. New accounts start with $5 of credit.
2. Open the Actor and select Try for free.
3. Leave feedUrl on the default feed, or point it at a category feed.
4. Add a query to filter headlines, and set maxItems to cap the run.
5. Select Start, then export from the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON or XML.

A first run:

{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "feedUrl": "https://splash247.com/feed/"
}

Track one topic:

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "feedUrl": "https://splash247.com/feed/",
  "query": "shipyard"
}

⚙️ Input

Field	Required	Description
maxItems	No	How many articles to collect per run. Default 10
feedUrl	No	RSS feed to read. Defaults to https://splash247.com/feed/
query	No	Title substring filter. Blank means every article in the feed

💰 Pricing

Pay per result. No subscription, and no Apify platform usage on top.

Apify plan	Free	Bronze	Silver	Gold	Platinum	Diamond
Per article row	$0.0085	$0.0082	$0.0078	$0.0075	$0.0075	$0.0075

Rows collected	Cost on the Free plan
100	$0.85
1,000	$8.50
10,000	$85.00

Free plan runs return up to 10 rows as a preview. Any paid Apify plan lifts that to 1,000,000 per run.

🔌 Integrate with any app

The dataset is available through the Apify API as soon as the run finishes. Use run-sync-get-dataset-items for a one-shot call, webhooks to post new articles into Slack or a database, or the Make, Zapier, Airbyte and LangChain integrations listed on the Actor page. Schedule it hourly and each run writes its own dataset.

🤖 Use with an AI agent

Give an agent live access to the feed over the Model Context Protocol:

$claude mcp add --transport http apify "https://mcp.apify.com?tools=acquistion-automation/splash247-shipping-news-scraper"

Then ask it in plain language what shipping published today and have it read the headlines back.

❓ Frequently asked questions

Does this return the full article text? No. It returns the feed's own excerpt in summary, which ends where the feed truncates it. Follow link for the whole article.

Why does summary contain …? That is the HTML entity for an ellipsis, published by the feed itself. The Actor passes the text through rather than rewriting it.

How far back does the feed go? As far as Splash247 publishes in RSS, which is a recent window rather than the whole archive. Schedule runs if you want a longer history.

Can I read a category feed instead? Yes. Put the category's RSS URL in feedUrl.

Is query a full-text search? No. It matches a substring of the headline. Filter summary afterwards in a spreadsheet if you need more.

Do I need a proxy? No. Requests and retries are handled inside the Actor and included in the price.

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About Acquisition Automation Co.

We build automation for people buying businesses. The repetitive part of an acquisition search, checking listings, pulling public records, tracking owners and assets, is work a machine should do, so the buyer's time goes into judging deals instead of collecting them.

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🆘 Support

Open an issue in the Issues tab of this Actor with your run ID, the input you used, and what you expected to get back.

⚠️ Disclaimer

This Actor is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Splash247 or Asia Shipping Media. It collects only publicly available data from a public RSS feed. Article text remains the property of its publisher. You are responsible for using that data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable law, including copyright.