South China Morning Post (SCMP) News Scraper

A fast, lightweight, and cost-effective Apify Actor to scrape the latest news, business, technology, economy, and financial intelligence from South China Morning Post (SCMP).

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🚀 Key Features

• High-Impact Macro & Financial Intelligence: Dedicated feeds for Business, Economy, China, Markets, Companies, Tech & AI (e.g., DeepSeek, TSMC, Alibaba), Hong Kong, and World news.
• Full Article Text Extraction: Optionally extracts the entire clean article body text and word count.
• Incremental Deduplication: Built-in support for Apify's Key-Value store to ensure scheduled cron jobs only output new articles.
• Keyword Filtering: Filter articles by specific topics or companies (e.g., ["AI", "semiconductor", "property", "yuan"]).
• Lightning Fast & Ultra-Low Resource: Pure HTTP scraping with TLS fingerprint impersonation (curl_cffi). Runs in under 2 seconds and requires only 256MB–512MB RAM.
• Multi-View Dataset: Ships with ready-made table views in the Apify console for both executive overviews and in-depth content analysis.

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📥 Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sections	Array	["business", "economy", "china", "tech", "markets"]	List of SCMP sections to retrieve.
maxItems	Integer	100	Maximum number of articles to extract per run.
keywords	Array	[]	Optional list of keyword filters.
includeArticleText	Boolean	false	If true, fetches full article paragraph text and calculates word count.
incremental	Boolean	false	When enabled on scheduled tasks, avoids pushing duplicate articles seen in prior runs.
proxyConfiguration	Object	Direct	Optional proxy configuration. Default direct works with zero blocking.

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📤 Output Schema

Each article record in the dataset contains:

{
  "title": "Record China-US gap in bond yields unlikely to trigger capital flight: Marsh Investment",
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3367096/record-china-us-gap-bond-yields-unlikely-trigger-capital-flight-marsh-investment",
  "section": "business",
  "published_at": "Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:55:32 +0000",
  "summary": "The widening yield spread between Chinese and American government bonds is unlikely to trigger catastrophic capital flight...",
  "author": "Daisy Wu",
  "article_text": "Executives say dollar dominance remains intact as borrowers diversify funding...",
  "word_count": 258,
  "scraped_at": "2026-09-10T16:57:39.278117+00:00"
}

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💡 Recommended Use Cases

1. Macro & Hedge Fund Research: Daily tracking of Chinese sovereign debt, currency trends (Yuan), real estate market recovery, and regulatory developments.
2. AI & Tech Supply Chain Tracking: Real-time updates on Asian AI model releases (DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen), chip manufacturing, and tech exports.
3. Automated Newsletters & LLM Aggregation: Ingest clean article summaries directly into your LangChain / LlamaIndex / Agentic pipelines via Apify API or webhooks.