TASS Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from TASS (tass.com), Russia's state news agency, 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, byline, publish/modified dates, reconstructed into clean paragraphs
• Also fetches the newest headlines straight from the site's RSS feed 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 RSS feed 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://tass.com/economy/2177103"
  ],
  "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://tass.com/economy/2177103",
  "_source": "S1-html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T16:34:50Z",
  "headline": "Bank of Russia raises dollar rate to 83.29 rubles for August 25",
  "description": "The official euro exchange rate was raised by 57.83 kopecks to 97.4384 rubles",
  "articleBody": "MOSCOW, August 24. /TASS/. The Bank of Russia set the official dollar exchange rate...",
  "author": "TASS",
  "publisher": "TASS",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T16:24:48.000Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-24T16:24:48.000Z",
  "image": ["https://tass.com/img/blocks/common/tass_logo_share_eng.png"]
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T16:34:56Z",
  "title": "Bank of Russia raises dollar rate to 83.29 rubles for August 25",
  "link": "https://tass.com/economy/2177103",
  "description": "The official euro exchange rate was raised by 57.83 kopecks to 97.4384 rubles",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 19:24:48 +0300",
  "category": "Business & Economy"
}

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 (article mode only).
author	string	Byline — always "TASS" since bylines are agency-attributed, not individual (article mode only).
publisher	string	Always "TASS" (article mode only).
datePublished / dateModified	string	ISO-8601 timestamps (article mode only).
link	string	Article URL (latest mode).
pubDate	string	RFC-822 publish timestamp as given by the feed (latest mode).
category	string	Section name, e.g. "World", "Business & Economy" (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).