💻 TechCrunch News Scraper

Stay on top of tech and AI news from TechCrunch. This scraper extracts up to 200 articles per run by category — titles, full text, authors, tags, and dates.

💡 Perfect for…

• Founders & investors: Follow startups, venture, and AI coverage.
• Researchers & journalists: Build topic archives with clean metadata.
• Content & alert tools: Feed fresh TechCrunch posts into digests or bots.
• 📚 RAG & AI workflows: Index article text with source links and tags.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🎯 Clear categories: Latest, Startups, Venture, Apple, Security, AI, Apps.
• 📰 Full articles: Title, body, author, date, and tags.
• 📦 Simple setup: Pick a category, set a max count, export.

📦 What's inside the data?

• id, title, link, date, content
• author_id, author_name, author_link
• category, terms (tags)

🎯 Available categories

• AI — Artificial intelligence news and breakthroughs
• Latest — Most recent TechCrunch articles
• Startups — Emerging companies and funding
• Venture — Investment and VC updates
• Security — Cybersecurity developments
• Apple — Apple ecosystem news
• Apps — Mobile and software applications

🚀 Quick start

1. Select a category (AI is a great starting point).
2. Set max_posts (up to 200).
3. Click Start and download JSON or CSV.

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Example input

{
  "category": "AI",
  "max_posts": 100
}

Example output

{
  "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…",
  "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"]
}

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
category	string	Yes	Latest, Startups, Venture, Apple, Security, AI, or Apps.
max_posts	integer	No	How many articles to collect. Min 10, max 200, default 100.