📰 Reuters News Scraper

Stay ahead of global news with comprehensive coverage from Reuters, one of the world's most trusted and largest multimedia news providers! Reuters delivers breaking news, business insights, market analysis, and coverage of global events with unparalleled accuracy and speed.

This powerful Reuters News Scraper extracts up to 50 articles per run from Reuters. It operates on a pay-per-event pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the exact data you use, making it highly cost-effective for both small and large-scale data gathering.

💡 Perfect for...

• Researchers & Analysts: Gather comprehensive data on specific topics, regions, or global events for in-depth trend analysis.
• Journalists & News Agencies: Stay updated on breaking news and monitor coverage from a premier global news source.
• Investors & Financial Professionals: Access business and market news instantly to make informed, data-driven investment decisions.
• AI Developers & NLP Researchers: Build rich datasets of high-quality news articles to train language models, perform sentiment analysis, or power content aggregators.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Targeted Categories: Focus your extraction by choosing from major categories (World, Business, Science, Technology, Lifestyle, Sports) or narrow it down with niche subcategories.
• ⚡ Fast & Structured: Get up to 50 rich article profiles per run, beautifully structured in ready-to-use formats.
• 💸 Pay-per-Event: Completely cost-effective. You only pay for what you extract without flat monthly limits.
• 📊 Rich Metadata: Not just text! Get the full article content alongside author details, social links, categorized tags, word counts, and timestamps.

📦 What's inside the data?

For every article scraped, you get clean, structured data including:

• Article Info: id, title, description, content, categories
• Media & URLs: post_url, thumbnail_url
• Metadata: published_time, updated_time, word_count, read_minutes
• Author Details: author_name, author_url, author_description, social_links_urls

🚀 How to use

1. Select your category: Start with main categories (World, Business, Science, Technology, Lifestyle, Sports) for the most articles, or pick a specific subcategory (e.g., Artificial Intelligence, European Markets).
2. Set max_posts: Choose how many articles you want to extract (up to 50 per run).
3. Run the scraper: Click Start and let the scraper gather the news in minutes.
4. Download your data: Export your structured article dataset as a CSV, Excel spreadsheet, or JSON file.

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Tech details for developers 🧑‍💻

Input Example:

{
  "category": "Technology",
  "max_posts": 30
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "L8N3KZ5KZ",
  "title": "Breaking: Major Economic Development Announced",
  "description": "Global markets react to significant policy changes...",
  "content": "Full article content here...",
  "post_url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/example-article",
  "thumbnail_url": "https://www.reuters.com/resizer/example.jpg",
  "published_time": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z",
  "updated_time": "2025-01-15T11:45:00Z",
  "word_count": 850,
  "read_minutes": 3,
  "categories": ["World", "Business"],
  "author_name": "John Doe",
  "author_url": "https://www.reuters.com/authors/john-doe",
  "author_description": "Senior Correspondent covering global economics",
  "social_links_urls": [
    "mailto:john.doe@reuters.com",
    "https://x.com/johndoe",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/in/johndoe"
  ]
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	Yes	Choose from main categories (World, Business, Science, Technology, Lifestyle, Sports) or any subcategory.
max_posts	integer	No	Maximum number of articles to scrape (default: 30, range: 10-50).