Daily FT Scraper
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 results
Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Daily FT (ft.lk), Sri Lanka's leading business newspaper -- no account or API key needed.
Input
_input
Optional
The exact input value (URL, or 'latest') that produced this record.
Source strategy
_source
Optional
Which extraction strategy emitted this record (e.g. S1-html, S2-rss).
Scraped at
_scrapedAt
Optional
UTC ISO 8601 timestamp when this record was scraped.
Error
_error
Optional
Present only on failed extractions -- the error kind (includes soft-404 cases where a nonexistent article URL returns HTTP 200 with the homepage shell).
Error detail
_errorDetail
Optional
Free-form diagnostic detail, present only alongside _error.
Headline
headline
Optional
Article headline, from h1.innerheader.
Deck
deck
Optional
One-line subheading from header.inner-content > ul > li -- present on hard-news articles, absent on opinion/column pieces.
Description
description
Optional
Article description, from meta[property=og:description].
Article body
articleBody
Optional
Full article text from header.inner-content
tags, with pull-image/caption
widgets removed and paragraphs split on runs of-per-paragraph markup with a single
using
separators).
Date published
datePublished
Optional
From meta[itemprop=datePublished].
Date modified
dateModified
Optional
From meta[itemprop=dateModified].
Title
title
Optional
Headline from the RSS item (latest mode).
Link
link
Optional
Article URL (latest mode).
GUID
guid
Optional
RSS item GUID (latest mode).
Publish date
pubDate
Optional
RSS pubDate string, in this feed's non-standard format (e.g. 'Monday, 24 August 2026 06:28', not RFC 822) -- passed through as-is (latest mode).
