# SCMP Scraper - Asia & China Financial News (`axery/scmp-scraper`) Actor

Fast, real-time scraper for South China Morning Post (SCMP). Extract macro economy, business, China markets, tech, AI, and full article text with zero blocking.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/axery/scmp-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Axery](https://apify.com/axery) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 scmp article with full texts

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 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:

```json
{
  "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.

# Actor input Schema

## `sections` (type: `array`):

Select news sections to retrieve articles from.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Total maximum number of news articles to extract.

## `keywords` (type: `array`):

Only keep articles matching any of these keywords in title or summary.

## `includeArticleText` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, fetches the full body text and word count for each article.

## `incremental` (type: `boolean`):

When enabled on scheduled cron runs, only new articles not seen in previous runs will be pushed to dataset.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Select proxies to be used. Default works directly without proxies.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "sections": [
    "business",
    "economy",
    "china",
    "tech",
    "markets"
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "includeArticleText": false,
  "incremental": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset containing output records.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "sections": [
        "business",
        "economy",
        "china",
        "tech",
        "markets"
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("axery/scmp-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "sections": [
        "business",
        "economy",
        "china",
        "tech",
        "markets",
    ],
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("axery/scmp-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "sections": [
    "business",
    "economy",
    "china",
    "tech",
    "markets"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call axery/scmp-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,axery/scmp-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/JNQsNTymWjli9XgWz/builds/pg9XG4pSwnr8DMg7u/openapi.json