📰 Al Jazeera News Scraper

Stay informed with comprehensive coverage of global news from Al Jazeera, an independent news organization partially funded by the Qatari government. Al Jazeera provides essential insights into current events, regional tensions, and in-depth analysis, with a particularly strong focus on developments in the Middle East and the Global South.

This powerful Al Jazeera News Scraper extracts detailed articles across multiple categories. It operates on a pay-per-event pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the exact data you extract, making it a highly cost-effective solution for both targeted monitoring and large-scale data collection.

💡 Perfect for...

• Journalists & Researchers: Track critical Middle East developments, global affairs, and regional tensions.
• Policy Analysts & Think Tanks: Monitor geopolitical shifts and government policies with on-the-ground reporting.
• Humanitarian Organizations: Follow crisis situations, human rights issues, and conflict zones to direct aid and advocacy.
• Academic Institutions: Study international relations and media perspectives using comprehensive news datasets.
• News Aggregators: Supplement your feeds with extensive coverage from a major international broadcaster.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Extensive Categories: Choose from dozens of specific categories, including Middle East, Africa, Economy, Human Rights, Investigations, and Climate Crisis.
• ⚡ Rich Content Extraction: Get up to 200 detailed articles per run, including full text, excerpts, and multimedia links.
• 📊 Comprehensive Metadata: Extract breaking news flags, publication timestamps, author details, SEO metadata, and featured video information.

📦 What's inside the data?

For every article scraped, you get clean, structured data including:

• Article Content: id, title, excerpt, content, category
• Media & URLs: link, short_url, featured_image_url, video_id, video_duration, featuredYoutube
• Metadata: date, isBreaking, isLive, isDeveloping, seoTitle, postType
• Author Details: author_name, author_link, author_description, author_job_title, social links (author_twitter, author_facebook, author_linkedin)

🚀 How to use

1. Select your category: Choose from the comprehensive list of available news categories (e.g., Middle East, Human Rights, Economy, Investigations).
2. Set max_articles: Choose how many articles you want to extract (between 20 and 200 per run).
3. Run the scraper: Click Start and let the scraper gather the news.
4. Download your data: Export your structured article dataset as a CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or JSON file.

Note: Sometimes the first 10 articles may not appear in the results due to dynamic loading patterns on the site.

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Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

Input Example:

{
  "category": "Human Rights",
  "max_articles": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "4102319",
  "title": "UN urges humanitarian corridor to help civilians stuck in Sudan’s el-Fasher",
  "excerpt": "IOM chief calls for ceasefire to allow aid groups to reach Sudanese civilians trapped in war-torn Darfur region.",
  "date": "2025-11-12T19:26:02",
  "link": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/12/un-urges-humanitarian-corridor-to-help-civilians-stuck-in-sudans-el-fasher",
  "short_url": "https://aje.io/ylt8yg",
  "isBreaking": false,
  "isLive": false,
  "isDeveloping": false,
  "sponsorshipType": null,
  "postType": "post",
  "author_id": "921446",
  "author_name": "Jillian Kestler-D'Amours",
  "author_link": "https://www.aljazeera.com/author/jillian_kestler_d_amours_201382813036352214",
  "author_description": "Jillian Kestler-D'Amours has reported from across the Middle East and North Africa...",
  "author_job_title": "",
  "author_twitter": "",
  "author_facebook": "",
  "author_linkedin": null,
  "featured_image_url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/reuters_6914cfed-1762971629.jpg",
  "galleryImagesCount": null,
  "seoTitle": null,
  "video_id": "",
  "video_duration": "",
  "featuredYoutube": "",
  "content": "The head of the United Nations’ migration agency has called for a ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor to help tens of thousands of civilians trapped in el-Fasher...",
  "category": "Human Rights"
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	Yes	Choose from available news categories (e.g., Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, US & Canada, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Explained, Opinion, Sport, Features, Economy, Human Rights, Climate Crisis, Investigations, Interactives, In Pictures, Science & Technology, Travel).
max_articles	integer	No	Maximum number of articles to scrape (default: 100, range: 20-200).