# BRICS News Scraper (`dadhalfdev/brics-news-scraper`) Actor

This scraper extracts BRICS news articles using a pay-per-event pricing model. Each execution (event) collects the latest BRICS-related news.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/dadhalfdev/brics-news-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Marco Rodrigues](https://apify.com/dadhalfdev) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Other
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $6.00 / 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/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## 🌍 BRICS News Scraper

Want BRICS-related headlines without digging through [TV BRICS](https://tvbrics.com) by hand? This scraper makes it easy.

Optionally **filter by country and category** (same options as on the site), set how many articles you want (up to **200**), and get titles, dates, categories, related countries, and full article text as CSV or JSON.

### 💡 Perfect for…

- **Policy & geopolitics watchers:** Follow BRICS coverage across member and partner countries in one dataset.
- **Researchers & analysts:** Build timelines of politics, economy, education, and technology stories.
- **Content & news teams:** Pull structured BRICS news for digests, alerts, or archives.
- **📚 RAG & AI workflows:** Feed `title` + `content` into assistants that need citeable BRICS reporting.

### ✨ Why you'll love this scraper

- 🎯 **Country & category filters:** Match the TV BRICS UI (China, India, BRICS bloc, Economy, Society, …).
- 🌐 **Multi-country coverage:** Articles often tag multiple BRICS and partner countries in one field.
- 📰 **Full article text:** Goes beyond headlines to capture the main body content.
- ⚡ **Fast pagination:** Loads listing pages in batches and fetches article bodies concurrently.
- 🔁 **Automatic listing depth:** Keeps loading until it reaches your requested article count (up to 200).

### 📦 What's inside the data?

For every article you get:

| Field | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| `title` | Article headline |
| `date` | Publication date and time |
| `link` | Full URL to the article |
| `content` | Full article text |
| `category` | News category (e.g. Politics, Economy) |
| `countries` | Related countries (comma-separated when several apply) |

### 🚀 Quick start

1. Open the actor on Apify.
2. Optionally pick a **country** and/or **category**.
3. Set **`number_of_articles`** (1–200; default 50).
4. Click **Start** and export CSV, Excel, or JSON when done.

### 📥 Inputs

| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|-----------|------|----------|-------------|
| `country` | string | No | `brics`, `china`, `india`, `russia`, … or empty for all |
| `category` | string | No | `economy`, `society`, `culture`, … or empty for all |
| `number_of_articles` | integer | Yes | How many articles to collect (1–200, default 50) |

**Example (filters):**

```json
{
  "country": "china",
  "category": "economy",
  "number_of_articles": 50
}
```

**Example (latest overall):**

```json
{
  "number_of_articles": 50
}
```

### 📤 Output example

```json
{
  "title": "Ethiopia and China expand vocational training partnership",
  "date": "2025-07-09 19:00:00",
  "link": "https://tvbrics.com/en/news/ethiopia-and-china-expand-vocational-training-partnership/",
  "content": "Ethiopia is accelerating its efforts to build a skilled technical workforce…",
  "category": "Education",
  "countries": "China, Ethiopia"
}
```

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

Optional. Same country chips as on tvbrics.com/en/news (All, BRICS bloc, or a member country).

## `category` (type: `string`):

Optional. Same sections as on TV BRICS (Economy, Society, Culture, …).

## `number_of_articles` (type: `integer`):

How many BRICS news articles to collect (1–200). Export as CSV or JSON when the run finishes.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "",
  "category": "",
  "number_of_articles": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

Table view using the dataset 'overview' view.

## `results` (type: `string`):

All items from the default dataset without view transformation.

# 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("dadhalfdev/brics-news-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("dadhalfdev/brics-news-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 dadhalfdev/brics-news-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,dadhalfdev/brics-news-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/juXI1G30vl1ujbJkr/builds/VjTEgCUzEcOzpL2F1/openapi.json