📰 TechCrunch News Scraper

Stay ahead of the curve with the latest tech and AI news from TechCrunch, a leading global media property dedicated to profiling startups, reviewing new internet products, and breaking the latest tech and AI news.

This powerful TechCrunch News Scraper extracts up to 120 articles per run. It operates on a pay-per-event pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the exact data you extract, making it a highly cost-effective solution for both targeted monitoring and large-scale data collection.

💡 Perfect for...

• Investors & Venture Capitalists: Discover emerging companies, track funding news, and spot the next big startup.
• Founders & Entrepreneurs: Keep up with the latest trends, competitors, and innovations in the startup ecosystem.
• Tech Enthusiasts & Developers: Stay updated on artificial intelligence breakthroughs, cybersecurity developments, and new apps.
• Market Researchers & Analysts: Monitor industry shifts, new product launches, and Apple ecosystem news.

✨ Features

• 🎯 Targeted Categories: Choose from trending tech categories, including AI, Startups, Venture, Security, Apple, and Apps.
• ⚡ Rich Content Extraction: Get up to 120 detailed articles per run, including full text, author info, and categorized tags.
• 📊 Comprehensive Metadata: Extract publication dates, direct links, unique article IDs, and specific tags (terms) for each post.

📦 What's inside the data?

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

• Article Content: id, title, content, category, terms
• Media & URLs: link
• Metadata: date
• Author Details: author_id, author_name, author_link

🚀 How to use

1. Select your category: Choose from the available tech categories (e.g., AI, Startups, Venture, Security, Apple, Apps, or Latest).
2. Set max_posts: Choose how many articles you want to extract (up to 120 per run).
3. Run the scraper: Click Start and let the scraper gather the latest tech news.
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": "AI",
  "max_posts": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": 3043894,
  "title": "Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake'",
  "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/08/sam-altman-says-that-bots-are-making-social-media-feel-fake/",
  "date": "2025-09-08T15:24:42-07:00",
  "content": "X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans...",  
  "author_id": 2703812,
  "author_name": "Julie Bort",
  "author_link": "https://techcrunch.com/author/julie-bort/",
  "category": "AI",
  "terms": [
    "AI",
    "Social", 
    "TC",
    "social media",
    "Reddit",
    "sam altman"
  ]
}

Parameters:

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	Yes	Choose from trending categories (Latest, Startups, Venture, Apple, Security, AI, Apps).
max_posts	integer	No	Maximum number of articles to scrape (default: 100, max: 120).