📰 Economic Times Scraper: India Policy & Business News

Stop manually refreshing news feeds to track India's macroeconomic shifts. This Actor is a dedicated news intelligence tool that extracts real-time articles, policy updates, and business summaries from the Economic Times.

Whether you are tracking Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announcements, government policy shifts, or major startup news, this tool delivers a clean, automated news feed straight to your database.

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🎯 What This Actor Does

General web scrapers return messy HTML. This Actor navigates the Economic Times (specifically the Policy, Startups, and Markets sections) and structures the news into a clean dataset. It extracts the Article Title, a Detailed Summary, the Publication Date, and the URL, filtering out ads and irrelevant site navigation.

💎 Key Intelligence Features

• 🏛️ Policy & Economy Monitor: Automatically track major government updates, including NITI Aayog visions, RBI MPC meetings, repo rate changes, and banking reforms.
• 📰 Clean Summaries: Extracts the core summary of the article so you can digest the news without clicking through and reading the whole page.
• 🏷️ Auto-Categorization: Tags each article by its specific sector (e.g., POLICY, STARTUPS, MARKETS).
• ⚡ Daily Briefing Ready: Perfect for running on a daily schedule to build automated morning newsletters or internal company briefings.

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📊 Data Points Extracted

Field	Data Type	Description
category	String	The section of the site (e.g., POLICY, STARTUPS).
title	String	The main headline of the news article.
summary	String	A concise summary of the news event (e.g., "The Reserve Bank of India has decided to uphold its policy repo rate...").
source	String	The publication name (Economic Times).
publishedAt	Date	The date the article was published.
url	String	The direct link to the full article.

(Note: Fields like entity_1, lead_investor, and main_amount are included in the schema for structured financial articles, but will return "N/A" for general news and policy updates).

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💡 Use Cases

• Financial Analysts & Traders: Monitor real-time RBI announcements and macroeconomic indicators that move the Indian stock market.
• Consulting Firms: Build automated intelligence dashboards tracking Indian government policy changes and Union Ministry updates.
• Newsletter Creators: Automate your content curation by pulling the top 20 business summaries every morning directly into Google Sheets or Notion.
• Risk Management: Track regulatory shifts affecting specific sectors.

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🛠 How to Run

1. Set your limits: Define the maximum number of pages or articles to scrape to stay within your Apify compute budget.
2. Run the Actor: Click start. The scraper uses built-in proxy management to ensure reliable extraction without getting blocked.
3. Export: Download your structured news feed in CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.