Bbc News Scraper
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Pay per usage
Bbc News Scraper
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Pay per usage
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Donny Nguyen
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Scrape BBC News articles and headlines from multiple sections. Extract comprehensive article data including title, author, published date, full article text, category, region, related stories, and image URLs.
Overview
This actor crawls BBC News sections and extracts structured article data. It supports multiple news sections including world, technology, business, science, health, entertainment, and sport. The scraper navigates section pages to discover article links, then extracts detailed content from each article page.
Features
- Scrape articles from any BBC News section (world, technology, business, science, health, sport, etc.)
- Extract full article text with paragraph preservation
- Capture author names and publication dates
- Identify related stories linked within articles
- Retrieve article images and category metadata
- Configurable maximum results per run
- Works with empty input using sensible defaults
Input Configuration
| Field | Type | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| sections | Array | BBC News sections to scrape | ["world", "technology", "business", "science"] |
| maxResults | Integer | Maximum number of articles to scrape | 100 |
Available sections include: world, technology, business, science, health, entertainment-arts, sport, politics, education.
Output Data
Each scraped article includes the following fields:
- title - Article headline
- author - Author name or byline
- publishedDate - ISO 8601 publication date
- articleText - Full article text (up to 10,000 characters)
- category - News section/category
- region - Geographic region if available
- relatedStories - Array of related article links
- imageUrl - Main article image URL
- url - Original article URL
- scrapedAt - Timestamp of data extraction
Use Cases
This scraper is ideal for news monitoring, media analysis, content aggregation, academic research, and trend tracking across international news coverage. Journalists, researchers, and data analysts can use this tool to build comprehensive news datasets.
API Integration
You can call this actor via the Apify API to integrate BBC News data into your existing workflows, dashboards, or data pipelines. Results are available in JSON, CSV, XML, and other formats via the dataset API.
Cost Estimation
With pay-per-event pricing at $0.30 per 1,000 results, scraping 100 BBC News articles costs approximately $0.03. The actor uses minimal compute resources with 256MB minimum memory allocation.
