Techmeme Scraper: Breaking Tech News, AI Deals & Industry Intel

A high-performance cloud scraper to extract real-time curated technology news, venture capital funding rounds, AI industry deals, executive moves, and policy antitrust updates directly from Techmeme.

Zero login required, 100% cloud reliability, and fully structured for AI Agent ingestion (MCP-ready).

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⚡ Why Use This Scraper?

Techmeme is the premier technology news aggregator read by Silicon Valley executives, venture capitalists, founders, and tech journalists. This Actor transforms Techmeme's editorial feed into structured data feeds for:

• 🤖 AI Agents & Market Intelligence: Feed real-time tech events into your LLM research pipelines.
• 💼 VC & Founder Deal Sourcing: Automatically detect stealth funding rounds, valuations, Series A-D announcements, and M&A deals.
• 📈 Competitor & PR Monitoring: Track what Tier-1 publications (Bloomberg, WSJ, The Verge, Reuters, Axios) are breaking about major tech players (OpenAI, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Meta, NVIDIA).
• 📰 Content Curation & Newsletters: Automate high-signal morning news summaries without human curation bottlenecks.

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🚀 Features

• ⚡ Fast & Zero Authentication: No accounts, API keys, or residential proxies needed.
• 🎯 Clean Headline & Author Extraction: Isolates the main breaking headline and original journalist/publication attribution.
• 🔗 Direct Source URLs: Resolves both the original publisher article URL (e.g. Forbes, Axios, Bloomberg) and the Techmeme discussion thread.
• 🏷️ Smart Topic Categorization: Automatic tagging for AI, FUNDING, CRYPTO, ENTERPRISE, and POLICY.
• 🔍 Custom Keyword Filtering: Filter stories by specific company names, keywords, or topics.
• 🤖 MCP & AI Agent Native: Follows official Apify Actor specifications (apify-default-dataset-item) compatible with Claude Desktop, Cursor, ChatGPT, and LangChain.

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⚙️ Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	Integer	30	Maximum number of breaking tech stories to extract (1 to 100).
searchQuery	String	""	Optional keyword or phrase filter (e.g., AI, NVIDIA, funding, Series A).
categoryFilter	Select	all	Topic category filter (all, ai, funding, crypto, enterprise, policy).

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📊 Sample Output (JSON)

[
  {
    "headline": "Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius",
    "attribution": "Will Maddox / Axios",
    "originalUrl": "https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/10/29/midstream-health-20m-revenue-recovery",
    "techmemeUrl": "https://www.techmeme.com/261101/p24#a261101p24",
    "pubDate": "Sun, 01 Nov 2026 22:01:17 -0500",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Midstream Health, whose AI tools help 250 hospitals recover revenue from rebates and vendor and payer underpayments, raised a $20M Series A led by Valtrius...",
    "matchedCategory": "AI"
  },
  {
    "headline": "Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation",
    "attribution": "Tim Keary / Forbes",
    "originalUrl": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/timkeary/2026/10/27/hex-threw-out-its-code-to-stop-the-saaspocalypse-raising-100-million/",
    "techmemeUrl": "https://www.techmeme.com/261101/p23#a261101p23",
    "pubDate": "Sun, 01 Nov 2026 21:40:01 -0500",
    "descriptionSnippet": "Data analytics provider Hex Technologies, which says it has rebuilt its platform for AI agents, raised a $100M Series D led by Peak XV at a $1.2B valuation...",
    "matchedCategory": "FUNDING"
  }
]

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🔌 AI Agent & Model Context Protocol (MCP) Integration

This Actor outputs clean structured datasets ready for direct consumption by AI Agents, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or AutoGPT via Apify's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server (apify-default-dataset-item).

Connect it to your agentic workflows to automatically monitor tech ecosystems, alert on major tech rounds, and execute programmatic research reports.