# FII DII Big Money & Indian Policy News (`complex_intricate_networks/india-policy-business-news-economic-times-scraper`) Actor

Scrape real-time India business news, RBI policy updates, and economic headlines from the Economic Times. Extracts clean titles, summaries, and URLs.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/complex\_intricate\_networks/india-policy-business-news-economic-times-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [CIN](https://apify.com/complex_intricate_networks) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 14 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: 5.00 out of 5 stars

## Pricing

from $10.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## 📰 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**.

# Actor input Schema

## `scrapeDuration` (type: `string`):

How far back should we look for news?

## `forceRefresh` (type: `boolean`):

Turn this on to see results immediately even if they were scraped before.

## `maxRequestsPerCrawl` (type: `integer`):

Limits the crawl size to save your compute usage.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "scrapeDuration": "1 month",
  "forceRefresh": true,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 100
}
```

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("complex_intricate_networks/india-policy-business-news-economic-times-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("complex_intricate_networks/india-policy-business-news-economic-times-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 '{}' |
apify call complex_intricate_networks/india-policy-business-news-economic-times-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,complex_intricate_networks/india-policy-business-news-economic-times-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/ZajMspy1AWmzlCb1k/builds/tPL00BUGaCbOy9JfX/openapi.json