📰 Cointelegraph Crypto News Scraper

Want to track the latest breaking news and narrative shifts across the crypto space? This Cointelegraph scraper makes it super easy!

Just choose your favorite section or topic (Latest News, Markets, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Regulation, and more), and the scraper will extract up to 200 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 major tokens and macro trends 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.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Chunk content and metadata into vector stores so agents can answer "What did Cointelegraph say about Bitcoin last week?" with citations.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Integrate seamlessly with LangChain, OpenClaw, Claude Code and other AI frameworks that need structured news data.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🎯 Editorial Sections & Tags: Choose from Cointelegraph areas like Latest News, Markets, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Altcoins, or Regulation. 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, short description, and formatted publication dates.
• ⏱️ Listing Depth: Automatically scrolls the category feed and listens to the background API to quickly collect article links 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 (Link), title, description, published_date, id, slug
• Categorization: category
• Content: content (Full main-body text)
• Author Details: author, author_url

🚀 Quick start

1. Go to the actor on Apify (or run it locally with the Apify SDK).
2. Choose your category (the Cointelegraph area you care about, e.g., Latest News, Bitcoin, Regulation).
3. Set number_of_articles (how many articles you want to scrape, up to 200).
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",
  "number_of_articles": 20
}

Output Example:

{
  "title": "Bitcoin price tests $70K as GBTC outflows hit 2-week low",
  "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-tests-70k-gbtc-outflows-hit-2-week-low",
  "id": 120531,
  "slug": "bitcoin-price-tests-70k-gbtc-outflows-hit-2-week-low",
  "published_date": "2026-03-23T15:30:00+00:00",
  "description": "Bitcoin bulls are trying to push BTC price back above $70,000 as spot ETF outflows begin to slow.",
  "author": "william-suberg",
  "author_url": "https://cointelegraph.com/authors/william-suberg",
  "category": "markets",
  "content": "Bitcoin (BTC) saw a renewed push toward $70,000 at the March 23 Wall Street open as the latest US inflation data met expectations.\n\nData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked a $2,000 Bitcoin price rebound from intraday lows.\n\nThe bounce coincided with the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index for February, which matched consensus estimates of 2.8% year-on-year.\n\nWhile avoiding any nasty surprises for risk assets, the data did little to shift market expectations of when the Federal Reserve might begin cutting interest rates..."
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	No	Cointelegraph feed to scrape: Latest News, Markets, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Ethereum, Altcoins, Regulation. Default: Latest News.
number_of_articles	integer	No	Target number of articles to collect from the listing. Min 10, max 200, default 100.