Kabar.kg Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Kabar (en.kabar.kg), the National News Agency of the Kyrgyz Republic, English edition — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required — fully free, open-access site with no paywall
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, description, category, publish/modified dates, and clean reconstructed paragraphs
• Latest-headlines mode reads the site's news sitemap directly, so you get the newest stories in real time without polling the homepage
• 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 news sitemap and returns the newest headlines with their publish times and links.
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://en.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-unveils-official-medals-for-6th-world-nomad-games/"
  ],
  "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 (real output, captured 2026-08-26):

{
  "_input": "https://en.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-unveils-official-medals-for-6th-world-nomad-games/",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld+html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-26T17:18:45Z",
  "headline": "Kyrgyzstan unveils official medals for 6th World Nomad Games",
  "description": "Bishkek, August 26, 2026. /Kabar/. The State Agency for Physical Culture and Sports unveiled the official designs of the gold, silver, and bronze medals that will be awarded to the…",
  "articleBody": "Bishkek, August 26, 2026. /Kabar/. The State Agency for Physical Culture and Sports unveiled the official designs of the gold, silver, and bronze medals that will be awarded to the winners and runners-up of the 6th World Nomad Games.\n\nAccording to the agency, the medal design is based on the traditional philosophy of the Kyrgyz people. The official logo of the Nomad Games is placed in the center of each medal.\n\nThe double-sided medals will be presented with a stand designed for their functional use.\n\nIt is noted that the winners and runners-up of the VI World Nomad Games will receive these medals, inscribing their names in the history of global nomadic sports.",
  "author": "Kabar",
  "publisher": "Kabar",
  "category": "WNG-2026",
  "sourceCredit": "WNG media headquarters",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-26T17:07:57+06:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-26T17:07:57+06:00",
  "image": ["https://en.kabar.kg/media/images/5f8a21.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.format-jpeg.jpegquality-65.jpg"]
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline (real output, captured 2026-08-26):

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-sitemap",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-26T17:18:34Z",
  "title": "Kyrgyzstan unveils official medals for 6th World Nomad Games",
  "link": "https://en.kabar.kg/news/kyrgyzstan-unveils-official-medals-for-6th-world-nomad-games/",
  "pubDate": "2026-08-26T17:03:00+06:00"
}

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.
description	string	Short lede snippet, from the site's own metadata (article mode).
articleBody	string	Full plain-text article content (article mode).
author	string	Byline — always "Kabar" (the agency itself); this is wire-service content, not individually bylined.
publisher	string	Publisher organization name — "Kabar" (article mode).
category	string	Section label, e.g. "Central Asia", "Society" (article mode).
sourceCredit	string	Optional attributed-source line, e.g. "Akorda" (article mode) — absent on agency-original stories.
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publish timestamps (article mode).
image	array	Article hero image URL(s) (article mode).
link	string	Article URL (latest mode).
pubDate	string	ISO 8601 publish timestamp from the news 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 or mistyped article URL).

Good to know

• This actor covers Kabar's English edition only, published at en.kabar.kg. The flagship kabar.kg domain serves Kyrgyz-language content, and ru.kabar.kg/tr.kabar.kg serve Russian/Turkish — all separate scopes, each its own subdomain.
• All content is wire-service/agency-attributed (author is always "Kabar"), consistent with a state news agency — there are no individual journalist bylines to extract.
• On rare articles, the upstream site itself serves a body that is truncated mid-word — this is passed through exactly as published, not a scraper bug.