Business Insider Scraper

Extract full article details or the newest headlines from Business Insider — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required
• Rich article detail: headline, byline with reporter job titles and profile links, editor, publish/update dates, and publisher info
• Also fetches the newest headlines site-wide, including full article body text, without visiting each article individually
• Automatically excludes subscriber-only "Insider" premium content from the headline feed
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, or databases
• Automatic retries on temporary network hiccups

How it works

1. Give the actor one or more article URLs, or switch to "latest" mode to get the newest stories automatically.
2. In article mode, the actor opens each URL and pulls out every publicly available detail about the story.
3. In latest mode, the actor reads the site-wide headline feed and returns the newest stories, including full text.
4. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You don't need to manage retries, rate limits, or figure out the site's internal data format — the actor handles all of that.

Input

Article mode (default):

{
  "mode": "article",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.businessinsider.com/fancy-new-business-class-suites-cause-headache-certification-delays-2026-8"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Latest headlines mode:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "limit": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	"article" (default) — extract one or more article URLs. "latest" — fetch the newest headlines site-wide.
url	string	A single article URL. Used in article mode.
urls	array	Multiple article URLs to extract in one run. Used in article mode.
limit	integer	Max headlines returned in latest mode. Default 10, max 20.
maxConcurrency	integer	How many articles to fetch in parallel in article mode. Default 4.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential is on by default.

Output

Article mode — one record per URL (truncated here for readability; the real record includes the full publisher block with masthead, ethics policy, and social links):

{
  "_input": "https://www.businessinsider.com/fancy-new-business-class-suites-cause-headache-certification-delays-2026-8",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T00:00:00Z",
  "@type": "NewsArticle",
  "editor": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Will Martin" },
  "author": [
    { "@type": "Person", "name": "Pete Syme", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/author/pete-syme", "jobTitle": "Aviation Reporter" }
    /* ... 1 more author */
  ],
  "publisher": { "@type": "NewsMediaOrganization", "name": "Business Insider", "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com" }
  /* ... headline, description, datePublished, dateModified, image, mainEntityOfPage */
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-atom",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T19:10:16Z",
  "title": "Hugging Face has been fielding M&A interest for a deal worth at least $13 billion",
  "link": "https://www.businessinsider.com/hugging-face-could-be-acquired-13-billion-2026-8",
  "updated": "2026-08-23T19:01:36Z",
  "content": "<figure><img src=\"https://i.insider.com/6a60930254f987526177814a?format=jpeg\" ...",
  "categories": []
}

Field	Type	Description
_input	string	The URL you requested, or "latest", for traceability.
_source	string	Which strategy produced this record.
_scrapedAt	string	UTC timestamp of when the record was captured.
headline / title	string	Article headline (headline in article mode, title in latest mode).
author	array	Reporters, with job title and profile URL (article mode only).
editor	object	Story editor (article mode only).
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publication timestamps (article mode).
updated	string	Last-updated timestamp (latest mode).
content	string	Full HTML article body (latest mode only).
link	string	The article URL (latest mode).

A record with _error instead of article fields means that URL could not be processed (for example, "_error": "not_found" for a removed article).