Cointelegraph News Scraper

Scrape cryptocurrency news articles from Cointelegraph across 15 languages. Extract titles, summaries, full article text, authors, categories, publication dates, view counts, and cover images — all in one JSON record per article, ready for analytics, LLM training, sentiment tracking, or news aggregation.

What does Cointelegraph News Scraper do?

This Actor pulls structured article data directly from Cointelegraph's internal GraphQL API across every language edition (English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Malay, Hindi, Taiwan, Russian). You can grab the latest articles, search for a keyword, or pull thousands of articles for batch analysis — with proxy rotation, scheduling, API access, webhooks, and dataset export baked in through the Apify platform.

Why use Cointelegraph News Scraper?

• Real-time crypto news feed — trigger scheduled runs and POST new articles to your own API for sentiment analysis, AI summaries, or Slack alerts.
• Multi-language market research — compare how the same story is covered in CT's 15 language editions.
• Full-text corpus for LLMs — each record includes the complete article body, perfect for fine-tuning or RAG pipelines.
• Fast and cheap — direct GraphQL access (no browser rendering) means hundreds of articles in seconds.
• Integration-ready — JSON output works out of the box with Zapier, Make, n8n, or the Apify API.

How to use Cointelegraph News Scraper

1. Click Try for free and sign in to Apify (or create a free account).
2. On the Input tab, pick your Language, enter a Search query (leave empty for the latest), and set Article count.
3. Toggle Fetch full article text and Fetch view count as needed.
4. Click Save & Start. Scraped articles appear live on the Output tab.
5. Download the results as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or consume them via the Apify API.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
language	enum	"en"	One of 15 CT language codes (en, tr, de, es, fr, it, jp, kr, br, cn, ar, my, in, tw, ru)
article_count	integer	10	How many articles to scrape (min 5, max 100,000)
search_query	string	""	Search keyword — leave empty to get the latest articles
fetch_full_text	boolean	true	Include the full article body in each record
fetch_views	boolean	true	Include the view count in each record
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy enabled	Proxy settings; Apify Proxy is recommended

Example input:

{
    "language": "en",
    "article_count": 10,
    "search_query": "Bitcoin",
    "fetch_full_text": true,
    "fetch_views": true
}

Output

Each scraped article is pushed to the run's dataset as one JSON record. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

{
    "id": "110589",
    "post_url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/what-happened-in-crypto-today",
    "postTranslate": {
        "id": "803945",
        "title": "Here's what happened in crypto today",
        "avatar": "https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/...",
        "published": "2026-04-17T15:14:01+01:00",
        "publishedHumanFormat": "2 hours ago",
        "leadText": "Need to know what happened in crypto today? ..."
    },
    "author": {
        "id": "87",
        "author_url": "https://cointelegraph.com/authors/cointelegraph",
        "innovationCircleUrl": null,
        "authorTranslates": [{ "id": "1035", "name": "Cointelegraph" }]
    },
    "category": {
        "id": "2",
        "category_url": "https://cointelegraph.com/tags/latest-news",
        "categoryTranslates": [{ "id": "67", "title": "Latest News" }]
    },
    "postBadge": {
        "id": "528",
        "label": "",
        "postBadgeTranslates": [{ "id": "12213", "title": "News" }]
    },
    "full_text": "Today in crypto, Bitcoin surged above $76,000...",
    "views": 317
}

Data table

Field	Type	Description
id	string	Cointelegraph internal post ID
post_url	string	Direct URL to the article
postTranslate.title	string	Article headline (in selected language)
postTranslate.leadText	string	Article summary / dek
postTranslate.avatar	string	Cover image URL
postTranslate.published	ISO datetime	Publication timestamp
postTranslate.publishedHumanFormat	string	"2 hours ago"
author	object	Author ID, profile URL, and translated name(s)
category	object	Category ID, URL, and translated name(s)
postBadge	object	Badge (e.g. "News", "Opinion")
full_text	string	Full article body (only if fetch_full_text=true)
views	integer	View count (only if fetch_views=true)

Pricing

$6.00 per 1,000 articles saved (Pay-Per-Event). You only pay for articles pushed to the dataset — failed requests cost nothing. Typical runs:

• 100 articles ≈ $0.60
• 1,000 articles ≈ $6.00
• 10,000 articles ≈ $60.00

There's also a small Apify platform compute fee (usually well under $0.01 per 100 articles thanks to direct GraphQL access — no browser rendering needed).

Tips and advanced options

• Leave search_query empty for the freshest latest-news feed.
• Turn off fetch_full_text if you only need headlines and metadata — it reduces output size ~10x.
• Schedule hourly runs with a named dataset to build a rolling news archive.
• Use webhooks to POST new articles to your own endpoint the moment they're scraped.
• Pick the right language — CT publishes different articles per edition, not just translations.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is scraping Cointelegraph legal? Scraping publicly accessible web content is generally legal, but you are responsible for respecting Cointelegraph's Terms of Service and not reusing copyrighted content in ways that infringe their rights. Use the data for research, analytics, or personal reading — not wholesale republication.

Why do some articles have empty full_text or missing views? Cointelegraph occasionally reposts or updates articles; some fields may be null in the API. The scraper faithfully returns whatever the API provides.

Does it work on all 15 languages? All 15 language codes are accepted. Some editions (my in particular) may return fewer articles if CT's language endpoint is temporarily limited.

Bug reports and feature requests — open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.