Financial Times Scraper (FT.com) — News, Markets & Companies

Extract structured real-time news, market insights, and macroeconomic analysis from the Financial Times (ft.com).

Designed specifically for financial analysts, algorithmic traders, corporate strategists, and researchers who require reliable, low-latency financial intelligence without dealing with complex browser automation or rate limits.

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Features

• Multi-Section Coverage: Scrape across key financial desks:
  • Markets: Equities, bonds, commodities, currencies, and central bank commentary.
  • Companies: Corporate earnings, M&A activity, private equity, and executive changes.
  • Technology: Big Tech, AI breakthroughs, venture capital, and digital disruption.
  • Global Economy: Macro trends, trade policies, inflation reports, and GDP data.
  • Opinion & Lex: High-level editorial commentary and FT’s flagship Lex column.
• Keyword Filtering: Filter articles by specific companies, tickers, or themes (e.g. Nvidia, Federal Reserve, OPEC, Semiconductors).
• Incremental Crawling: Built-in state management via Apify Key-Value Store ensures subsequent runs only return newly published stories.
• Fast & Cost-Effective: Lightweight HTTP engine running on minimal RAM (256 MB – 512 MB). No expensive residential proxies required.

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Input Configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
sections	Array	["markets", "companies", "world", "technology", "global-economy"]	Sections to scrape from FT.com.
maxItems	Integer	100	Maximum number of articles to retrieve.
keywords	Array	[]	Optional list of keyword filters.
incremental	Boolean	false	When true, deduplicates against previously scraped runs.
proxyConfiguration	Object	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Optional proxy settings. Datacenter proxies work seamlessly.

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Output Dataset Schema

Each article record in the default dataset contains:

{
  "id": "e4a2c918f723b105",
  "title": "Global bond sell-off reignites as oil jumps to $107",
  "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/1572d41a-3e41-4560-84cf-2321850d53c7",
  "section": "markets",
  "published_at": "Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:18:04 GMT",
  "summary": "Investors dump government debt across Europe and the US as energy costs fuel persistent inflation concerns.",
  "author": "Financial Times Editorial Staff",
  "source": "Financial Times",
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-10T16:25:30.123456+00:00"
}

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Pricing & Monetization

• Model: Pay-Per-Event (PPE)
• Actor Start: $0.005 (Fixed container startup fee)
• Per Result Item: $0.0018 per article saved to dataset

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Local Development & Testing

$python test_local.py --sections markets technology --max 25 --out sample_output.json