# FreightWaves News Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥📰🚛 (`delectable_incubator/my-actor-3`) Actor

Scrape FreightWaves news articles 🚛📰 with a powerful logistics and supply chain news scraper. Extract article titles, excerpts, authors, categories, publication dates, images and URLs. Ideal for media monitoring, supply chain intelligence, transportation market research & structured news datasets

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/my-actor-3.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** News, SEO tools, E-commerce
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

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<img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="FreightWaves News Scraper" width="100%">

</p>

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## FreightWaves News Scraper | Logistics & Supply Chain News Extraction | Apify Actor 🚛📰 

### 🚀 Extract FreightWaves News Data in Seconds (No Code)

The **FreightWaves News Scraper (Apify Actor)** is a powerful, scalable and **SEO-optimized logistics news scraping tool** designed to extract structured articles from FreightWaves.

It allows you to **scrape FreightWaves news articles in bulk**, collect logistics and supply chain intelligence, and export structured datasets for **market research, trend monitoring, media analysis, AI training datasets, and business intelligence projects**.

---

### 🔥 Why This FreightWaves Scraper?

✔ Best FreightWaves scraper on Apify

✔ Bulk URL scraping support

✔ Fast & scalable article extraction

✔ Extract logistics, trucking & supply chain news

✔ Clean structured JSON / CSV / Excel output

✔ Ideal for logistics intelligence & media monitoring

✔ Perfect for analysts, researchers & AI projects

✔ No coding required

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does (FreightWaves News Extraction)

This Apify Actor extracts structured article data directly from FreightWaves category pages, search pages and news listings.

#### 📌 Core Features:

✅ Scrape FreightWaves news articles

✅ Bulk URL scraping support

✅ Extract article titles

✅ Extract article excerpts & summaries

✅ Extract author information

✅ Extract publication dates

✅ Extract article categories

✅ Extract featured images

✅ Extract article URLs

✅ Clean structured dataset output

✅ High-speed extraction engine

---

### ⚡ Input Configuration (Simple & Powerful)

#### 🔥 BULK URL MODE

````

{
"urls": \[
"https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/trucking",
"https://www.freightwaves.com/?s=supply+chain"
],
"maxitems": 80
}

```

---

### 📊 Extracted Article Data (Structured Output)

| Field         | Description               |
| ------------- | ------------------------- |
| id            | Unique article identifier |
| title         | Article title             |
| excerpt       | Short article summary     |
| author        | Article author            |
| authorUrl     | Author profile URL        |
| publishedDate | Publication date          |
| category      | Article category          |
| imageUrl      | Featured image URL        |
| detailUrl     | Full article URL          |

---

### 💡 Use Cases (High Demand SEO Keywords)

This FreightWaves scraper is used for:

🚛 Logistics industry monitoring

📦 Supply chain intelligence

📰 News aggregation platforms

📈 Market trend analysis

🤖 AI training datasets

📊 Business intelligence dashboards

🌍 Transportation industry research

⚡ Bulk news data extraction

---

### 🚀 Key Features (Apify SEO Optimized)

⚡ Bulk URL scraping support

🌍 Logistics & supply chain news coverage

📌 Smart pagination handling

🧠 Clean structured output

📊 High-speed extraction engine

🔁 Auto retry & stability system

💾 Export-ready datasets

⚙️ Scalable cloud execution (Apify Actor)

---

### 📤 Output Formats Supported

✔ JSON (structured API ready)

✔ CSV (Excel analysis)

✔ Excel XLSX (business reports)

✔ XML (data pipelines)

✔ HTML (dashboards)

---

### 📦 Example Output

```

{
"id": "fw\_123456",
"title": "Trucking market shows signs of recovery",
"excerpt": "Freight demand is stabilizing after months of volatility...",
"author": "John Doe",
"authorUrl": "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/author/john-doe",
"publishedDate": "2025-01-15",
"category": "Trucking",
"imageUrl": "https://www.freightwaves.com/image.jpg",
"detailUrl": "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/trucking-market-recovery"
}

````

---

### 🔥 Why This is the BEST FreightWaves Scraper on Apify?

✔ Optimized for Apify search ranking

✔ High-performance news scraping engine

✔ Bulk URL support

✔ Clean structured dataset output

✔ Enterprise-ready scalability

✔ Perfect for logistics intelligence workflows

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay-per-result pricing model**.

You only pay for successfully extracted records.

💳 **Price:** $9.99 / 1,000 results 

---

### ❓ FAQ (SEO BOOST SECTION)

#### Can I scrape multiple FreightWaves URLs at once?

Yes — bulk URL mode is fully supported.

#### Can I scrape category pages and search pages?

Yes — both FreightWaves category URLs and search result URLs are supported.

#### Is this scraper fast?

Yes — optimized for high-speed article extraction.

#### Can I export the data?

Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML and HTML are supported.

#### Is coding required?

No — 100% no-code Apify Actor.

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is not affiliated with FreightWaves. It is an independent data extraction solution.

---

### 🔗 Related Actors (Logistics & News Intelligence Ecosystem)

We are building a full **PrimeScrape Data Intelligence Suite**.

👉 More logistics, news, business intelligence and market research scrapers coming soon 🚀

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape Ecosystem

Built for **data scraping, automation, AI training datasets, and market intelligence at scale**.

📰 News intelligence

📦 Supply chain analytics

🏢 Business intelligence

📈 Market research

🤖 AI datasets

⚙️ Automation pipelines

---

### 📬 Support

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📩 Contact us for custom scraping solutions and enterprise requests

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

List of FreightWaves URLs to scrape (category pages or search results).

Examples:

🚚 Trucking category:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/trucking

✈️ Air freight:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/air-freight

🔍 Search results:
https://www.freightwaves.com/?s=supply+chain

🌍 Global supply chain:
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/global-supply-chain

The scraper paginates automatically (/page/N) until maxitems is reached or 2 consecutive pages return no new results.

⚠️ URLs must be from freightwaves.com.
## `maxitems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of articles to collect per URL.

The scraper paginates until this limit is reached or no more results are available.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/logistics",
    "https://www.freightwaves.com/?s=ecommerce"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/logistics",
        "https://www.freightwaves.com/?s=ecommerce"
    ],
    "maxitems": 50
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/my-actor-3").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/logistics",
        "https://www.freightwaves.com/?s=ecommerce",
    ],
    "maxitems": 50,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/my-actor-3").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/logistics",
    "https://www.freightwaves.com/?s=ecommerce"
  ],
  "maxitems": 50
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/my-actor-3 --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/my-actor-3",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "FreightWaves News Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥📰🚛",
        "description": "Scrape FreightWaves news articles 🚛📰 with a powerful logistics and supply chain news scraper. Extract article titles, excerpts, authors, categories, publication dates, images and URLs. Ideal for media monitoring, supply chain intelligence, transportation market research & structured news datasets",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "HlKmgu1oiKe7doKfm"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~my-actor-3/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-delectable_incubator-my-actor-3",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~my-actor-3/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-my-actor-3",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~my-actor-3/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-my-actor-3",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "urls",
                    "maxitems"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "urls": {
                        "title": "FreightWaves URLs 🚛",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "List of FreightWaves URLs to scrape (category pages or search results).\n\nExamples:\n\n🚚 Trucking category:\nhttps://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/trucking\n\n✈️ Air freight:\nhttps://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/air-freight\n\n🔍 Search results:\nhttps://www.freightwaves.com/?s=supply+chain\n\n🌍 Global supply chain:\nhttps://www.freightwaves.com/news/category/news/global-supply-chain\n\nThe scraper paginates automatically (/page/N) until maxitems is reached or 2 consecutive pages return no new results.\n\n⚠️ URLs must be from freightwaves.com.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        }
                    },
                    "maxitems": {
                        "title": "Maximum articles per URL 📄",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of articles to collect per URL.\n\nThe scraper paginates until this limit is reached or no more results are available.",
                        "default": 50
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```