📰 CryptoSlate Scraper

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

Just choose your favorite section or topic (News, Analysis, asset-specific feeds like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, DeFi, ETFs, and more), and the scraper will extract full articles, neatly packing headlines, full text, sentiment, and author details into a CSV or JSON file.

💡 Perfect for...

• Trading & Market Desks: Track breaking headlines, sentiment markers, and narrative shifts around major tokens, ETFs, and macro trends.
• Sentiment & NLP Pipelines: Leverage the pre-extracted sentiment tag directly from CryptoSlate or run your own LLMs on full article bodies to score fear/greed.
• Crypto Bots & Alerts: Feed fresh URLs, subtitles, and author data 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 is the sentiment on ETFs according to CryptoSlate?" 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: Choose from CryptoSlate areas like News, Analysis, Regulation, Exchanges, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, DeFi, Legal, Trading, Investments, Stablecoins, ETF, Mining, Technology, Adoption, or Price Watch. The scraper automatically maps them to the right listing URLs.
• ⚙️ Deep Content Extraction: Extracts not just the headline, but the full article body, reading time, and formatted ISO-8601 publication dates.
• 📊 Built-in Sentiment: Automatically captures CryptoSlate's native sentiment label (e.g., Bullish, Bearish, Neutral) for each article.
• 👤 Author & Editor Insights: Pulls the author's name, profile URL, and even their X (Twitter) and LinkedIn social links. Also extracts the editor's details.
• 📢 Promoted Content Flagging: Intelligently identifies sponsored/promoted articles, setting an is_promoted flag.
• 🧹 Smart Filtering (Pay Only For What You Get): The scraper intentionally skips non-article pages (like generic "Guides") that are mixed into the feed. Because of this, if you request 100 articles, you might receive 70 valid articles (and you only pay for the 70 returned results).

📦 What's inside the data?

For every single article, you will get:

• Core Details: url, title, subtitle, date, reading_time
• Categorization: category, sub_category, is_promoted (Boolean string indicator)
• Market Data: sentiment (e.g., Bullish, Bearish)
• Content: content (Full main-body text)
• Author Details: author_name, author_url, author_x (Twitter link), author_linkedin
• Editor Details: editor_name, editor_url

🚀 Quick start

1. Go to the actor on Apify (or run it locally with the Apify SDK).
2. Choose your category (the CryptoSlate area you care about, e.g., News, Analysis, Bitcoin, Ethereum, ETF).
3. Set max_articles (how many articles you want to scrape, up to 100). Note: Due to the scraper skipping guides and thin content, you may receive fewer results than requested. You only pay for what you receive.
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": "Bitcoin",
  "max_articles": 20
}

Output Example:

{
  "url": "https://cryptoslate.com/crypto-hacks-dont-end-when-the-money-is-gone/",
  "title": "Why crypto hacks don’t end and continue even when the money is gone",
  "subtitle": "A crypto exploit can empty a wallet in minutes, but the full damage often unfolds for months. Tokens keep falling, treasuries shrink, hiring freezes set in, and projects that survive the theft can still lose their future in the aftermath.",
  "date": "2026-03-22T20:25:54+00:00",
  "content": "A crypto hack never ends when the wallet is drained. The theft lands first, fast and visible, and then a slower collapse starts to work through the rest of the project.\n\nThe token keeps sliding, the treasury shrinks with it, hiring plans get cut back, product deadlines move, partners pull away, and the company that was supposed to recover spends months fighting...",
  "is_promoted": false,
  "category": "Analysis",
  "sub_category": null,
  "reading_time": " 4 min read",
  "sentiment": " Negative ",
  "author_name": " Andjela Radmilac ",
  "author_url": "https://cryptoslate.com/author/andjela-radmilac/",
  "author_x": "https://x.com/andjelaradmilac",
  "author_linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/andjelaradmilac/",
  "editor_name": " Liam 'Akiba' Wright ",
  "editor_url": "https://cryptoslate.com/author/liam-akiba-wright/"
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	No	CryptoSlate feed to scrape: News, Web3, Analysis, Regulation, Exchanges, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, DeFi, Legal, Trading, Investments, Stablecoins, ETF, Mining, Technology, Adoption, Price Watch. Default: News.
max_articles	integer	No	Target number of articles to collect. Due to filtering of guides and thin content, actual output count may be lower. Min 10, max 250, default 100.