📰 Decrypt Crypto News Scraper

Want to track the latest breaking news and narrative shifts across Web3, AI, and crypto? This Decrypt scraper makes it super easy!

Just choose your favorite section or topic (News, AI, DeFi, Business, NFTs, Gaming, and more), and the scraper will extract up to 100 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, DeFi platforms, 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 Decrypt say about X 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: Choose from Decrypt areas like News, Editor's Picks, Business, AI, Technology, NFTs, Coins, DeFi, Gaming, Markets, or Opinion. 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, reading time, and formatted 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, date, reading_time
• Categorization: category, sub_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 Decrypt area you care about, e.g., News, AI, DeFi, Markets).
3. Set max_articles (how many articles you want to scrape, up to 100).
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": "Business",
  "max_articles": 20
}

Output Example:

{
  "url": "https://decrypt.co/326331/wyoming-plots-august-debut-wyst-state-stablecoin",
  "title": "'Public Good': Wyoming Plots August Debut for WYST Stablecoin",
  "category": "Business",
  "sub_category": "Law and Order",
  "date": "2025-06-21T10:30:00",
  "reading_time": "4 min read",
  "content": "In brief\nWyoming lawmakers have been talking about introducing a stablecoin since 2022.\nThe asset, WYST, is now targeted to launch on August 20 during the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium.\nThis week, the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, which would create a legal framework for stablecoins.\n\nThe Cowboy State moved one step closer to issuing its own stablecoin.\n\nThe state-backed Wyoming Stable Token Commission said this week that the WYST cryptocurrency's debut will likely occur on August 20 at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium in Jackson...",
  "author": "Mat Di Salvo",
  "author_url": "https://decrypt.co/author/mathewdisalvo"
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	No	Decrypt feed to scrape: News, Editor's Picks, Business, AI, Technology, NFTs, Coins, DeFi, Gaming, Markets, Opinion. Default: News.
max_articles	integer	No	Target number of articles to collect from the listing (increments as links load). Min 10, max 100, default 100.