📰 CoinDesk Crypto News Scraper

Want to track the latest breaking news and narrative shifts in the crypto world? This scraper makes it super easy!

Just choose your favorite section or topic (Latest, Markets, Policy, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more), and the scraper will extract up to 150 full articles, neatly packing headlines, full text, and publication dates into a CSV or JSON file.

💡 Perfect for...

• Trading & Market Desks: Track breaking headlines and narrative shifts around BTC, ETH, macro, and policy as structured time series.
• Sentiment & NLP Pipelines: Run classifiers or LLMs on titles, descriptions, and full article bodies to score fear/greed, controversy, or entity mentions over time.
• Crypto Bots & Alerts: Feed fresh URLs and summaries into Telegram/Discord bots or trading assistants.
• Data Analysts: Download clean, structured data for visualizations, dashboards, or predictive market models.
• 🤖 OpenClaw & AI Agents: Give Claude Code, OpenClaw, or custom workers a clean, repeatable news source with stable fields.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Chunk content and metadata into vector stores so agents can answer "What did CoinDesk say about X last week?" with citations.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Integrate seamlessly with LangChain, OpenClaw and other AI frameworks that need structured news data.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🎯 Editorial Sections & Tags: Choose from CoinDesk areas (Latest, Markets, Finance, Tech, Policy) or asset tags (Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Solana)—the scraper automatically maps them to the right listing URLs.
• ⚙️ Deep Content Extraction: Extracts not just the headline, but the full article body, author details, description, and normalized ISO-8601 publication dates.
• ⏱️ Listing Depth: Automatically scrolls the category feed and clicks "Load more" until enough article links are collected to meet your exact needs.
• 👤 Clean Structured Data: Returns highly structured data ready for immediate analysis, bypassing the need to parse raw HTML.

📦 What's inside the data?

For every single article, you will get:

• Core Details: url, title, description, date
• Categorization: category, sub_category
• Content: content (Full main-body text)
• Author Details: author_name, author_url

🚀 Quick start

1. Go to the actor on Apify (or run it locally with the Apify SDK).
2. Choose your category (the CoinDesk area or asset feed you care about, e.g., Latest, Markets, Bitcoin).
3. Set max_articles (how many articles you want to scrape, up to 150).
4. Click Start and let it run! 🗞️ Once it's done, you can export your data as a CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or JSON file.

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Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

Input Example:

{
  "category": "Markets",
  "max_articles": 120
}

Output Example:

{
  "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/03/21/it-could-cost-you-up-to-usd6-million-to-grab-lunch-with-donald-trump",
  "date": "2026-03-21T15:00:00",
  "title": "It could cost you up to $6 million to grab lunch with Donald Trump",
  "category": "Latest",
  "sub_category": "Finance",
  "description": "Qualifying for Trump’s crypto gala can cost as little as $70,000 or as much as several million, with rankings driven by timing and strategy rather than sheer holdings.",
  "author_name": "Oliver Knight",
  "author_url": "https://www.coindesk.com/author/oliver-knight",
  "content": "A seat at Donald Trump’s upcoming crypto luncheon could cost as little as $70,000. It could also cost more than $6 million, depending on how participants choose to climb the leaderboard that determines entry, even as the token trades nearly 96% below its peak.\nThe event, announced last week, is set for April 25 at Mar-a-Lago, Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Florida. Attendance is capped at 297 and is tied to holdings of the TRUMP memecoin. Wallets are ranked based on “Trump Points,” which reflect token exposure over time. Those rankings, rather than simple ownership, determine who qualifies for the invites.\nThis luncheon marks the second of this type of meet-the-president event, after the last dinner announcement in April 2025. That earlier dinner prompted Democratic lawmakers to lodge protests and raise concerns about Trump profiting off of his own crypto token while simultaneously championing legislation to support the industry and appointing regulators to oversee crypto. These concerns have, in part, delayed current legislation sought by the crypto industry, while lawmakers in the U.S. are currently trying to move the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act forward..."
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	No	CoinDesk feed to scrape: Latest, Markets, Finance, Tech, Policy, Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, or Solana. Default: Latest.
max_articles	integer	No	Target number of articles to collect from the listing (increments as links load). Min 10, max 150, default 100.