CTV News Scraper

📰 CTV News Scraper

Want CTV News stories in a spreadsheet? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters — better for AI agents — or paste an input_url. When input_url is set it overrides the filters.

Scrape news stories and full article text from ctvnews.ca. Filter by section or keyword, or paste a CTV News URL.

💡 Perfect for...

• Media monitoring: Track CTV News by section and keyword.

• Dashboards: Collect headlines, authors, timestamps, and the full article text.

• Research: Follow one section or a keyword across the archive.

• Data analysts: Export rows with the public story URL and photo.

• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live CTV News results.

• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed the fields below into retrieval pipelines.

• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste a CTV News URL, or set the filters below. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Filters: Section and keyword.
• 🌐 Full article text: Every row includes the body in content, plus the headline and the public URL.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, author, authors, published, updated, section, sections, tags, description, content, image

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/. Option B: set section and keyword, then set max_results.

Input Example (filters):

{
  "section": "Politics",
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/",
  "max_results": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "Z6BU6MTHPFH7DG7DATU3PVL2X4",
  "url": "https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/pm-carney-says-us-is-coming-closer-to-our-position-in-trade-war-as-talks-gain-momentum/",
  "title": "PM Carney says ‘U.S. is coming closer to our position’ as trade talks gain momentum",
  "author": "Spencer Van Dyk",
  "authors": [
    "Spencer Van Dyk"
  ],
  "published": "2026-10-26T21:16:31.854Z",
  "updated": "2026-10-26T22:51:34.399Z",
  "section": "Politics",
  "sections": [
    "Trade War",
    "Politics",
    "World",
    "Canada",
    "News"
  ],
  "tags": [
    "AppleNews"
  ],
  "description": "Amid reporting by CTV News that trade talks between Canada and the U.S. are gaining momentum, Mark Carney said the Trump administration is 'coming closer to our position.'",
  "content": "OTTAWA — Amid reporting by CTV News that trade talks between Canada and the U.S. are gaining momentum, Prime Minister Mark Carney said the Trump administration is “coming closer to our position.”\n\nCarney made the comments during a question-and-answer period with reporters after a meeting between First Nation leaders and First Ministers in Ottawa on Monday.\n\nCarney also said, however, he can’t guarantee U.S. President Donald Trump will respect anything they sign.\n\nWhen talks broke down completely in August, Carney...",
  "image": "https://cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/bellmediainc/FE4TUORGRFAW7OIIDNNZFPBDME.png"
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	CTV News story id.
url	Public story page.
title	Story headline.
author	Primary author name.
authors	All author names on the byline.
published	First publication timestamp.
updated	Last update timestamp.
section	Primary section name.
sections	All sections assigned to the story.
tags	Topic tags on the story.
description	Deck or lead summary.
content	Full article text.
image	Lead image URL.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	-	CTV News section, search, or story URL. Overrides every filter.
section	string	No	-	Politics, Canada, World, Business, Health, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Climate & Environment, Sci-Tech, Sports, Opinion and local sections such as Toronto or Vancouver.
keyword	string	No	-	Search keyword.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1-2000).

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