Clarin Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Clarín (clarin.com), Argentina's largest-circulation newspaper — no account or login needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required — HTTP-only, no browser automation
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, description, byline, publish/modified dates, section, keywords, image, reconstructed into clean paragraphs
• Honest paywall reporting — a genuine isAccessibleForFree / _paywalled flag straight from the site's own metadata, sampled on both free and subscriber-only articles (Clarín server-renders the full article text either way; the paywall is a client-side overlay that an HTTP-only scraper never sees, so articleBody is always complete)
• Also fetches the newest headlines straight from the site's Google News sitemap without visiting each article individually
• 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 the full text and every publicly available detail about the story.
3. In latest mode, the actor reads the site's Google News sitemap and returns the newest stories.
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.clarin.com/informacion-general/empleadas-domesticas-cobraran-hora-septiembre-monto-suma-nuevo-salario_0_FxNuO6jbE8.html"
  ],
  "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.
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 50.
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):

{
  "_input": "https://www.clarin.com/informacion-general/empleadas-domesticas-cobraran-hora-septiembre-monto-suma-nuevo-salario_0_FxNuO6jbE8.html",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld+html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T10:00:00Z",
  "headline": "Empleadas domésticas: cuánto cobrarán por hora desde septiembre y qué monto se suma al nuevo salario",
  "description": "Los salarios de las trabajadoras de casas particulares volverán a subir en septiembre...",
  "articleBody": "Las empleadas domésticas tendrán una nueva actualización salarial en septiembre de 2026...",
  "author": "Redacción Clarín",
  "publisher": "Clarín",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T17:02:56.000Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-24T17:02:56.000Z",
  "articleSection": ["Información General"],
  "keywords": ["sueldos y paritarias", "servicio doméstico", "paritarias"],
  "image": "https://www.clarin.com/img/2021/05/03/W3fI6lekj_1256x620__1.jpg",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "_paywalled": false
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-sitemap",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-25T10:00:05Z",
  "title": "Empleadas domésticas: cuánto cobrarán por hora desde septiembre y qué monto se suma al nuevo salario",
  "link": "https://www.clarin.com/informacion-general/empleadas-domesticas-cobraran-hora-septiembre-monto-suma-nuevo-salario_0_FxNuO6jbE8.html",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-24T17:02:56Z",
  "imageUrl": "https://www.clarin.com/img/2021/05/03/W3fI6lekj_1200x630__1.jpg",
  "imageCaption": "Las empleadas domésticas tendrán un nuevo aumento salarial en septiembre de 2026..."
}

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.
articleBody	string	Full plain-text article content, always complete regardless of paywall status (article mode only).
author	string	Byline — an individual name for opinion/analysis pieces, "Redacción Clarín" for wire-style news (article mode only).
publisher	string	Always "Clarín" (article mode only).
datePublished / dateModified	string	ISO-8601 timestamps (article mode only).
articleSection	array	Section name(s), e.g. ["Opinión"] (article mode only).
keywords	array	Editorial tags (article mode only).
image	string	Lead image URL (article mode only).
isAccessibleForFree	boolean	The site's own paywall metadata flag (article mode only).
_paywalled	boolean	true when isAccessibleForFree is false. Text is still complete — see note above (article mode only).
link	string	Article URL (latest mode).
publicationDate	string	ISO-8601 publish timestamp from the sitemap (latest mode).
imageUrl / imageCaption	string	Lead image and caption from the sitemap (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).

Paywall note

Clarín gates some content (mostly long-form /opinion/ pieces) behind a "Solo suscriptores" client-side overlay. This actor never fabricates or truncates text: recon confirmed the server sends the full article HTML regardless of subscription status (the gate is JS/CSS applied in the browser, invisible to an HTTP-only fetch). _paywalled is a transparent pass-through of the site's own isAccessibleForFree flag so downstream consumers know which rows come from subscriber-only sections — it never means the text is cut short.