Vox Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Vox — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, byline, keywords, section, and publish/update dates
• Also fetches the newest headlines from a single site-wide 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 headline 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://www.vox.com/the-highlight/473299/is-surrogacy-ethical-or-unethical-elective-medical"
  ],
  "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 30.
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.vox.com/the-highlight/473299/is-surrogacy-ethical-or-unethical-elective-medical",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T19:55:41Z",
  "@type": "NewsArticle",
  "headline": "You want a baby. Is it ethical to choose surrogacy?",
  "description": "The line between medically necessary and elective surrogacy isn't as tidy as people assume.",
  "articleBody": "...",
  "articleSection": "The Highlight",
  "keywords": ["Advice", "Family", "Future Perfect", "Life", "Parenting", "Relationships", "The Highlight", "Your Mileage May Vary"],
  "author": [{ "@type": "Person", "name": "Sigal Samuel", "url": "https://www.vox.com/authors/sigal-samuel" }],
  "datePublished": "2026-01-12T11:00:00+00:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-23T12:33:32+00:00"
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-atom",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T19:56:29Z",
  "title": "You want a baby. Is it ethical to choose surrogacy?",
  "link": "https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/473299/is-surrogacy-ethical-or-unethical-elective-medical",
  "guid": "https://www.vox.com/?p=473299",
  "pubDate": "2026-08-23T08:33:32-04:00",
  "updated": "2026-08-23T08:33:43-04:00",
  "description": "Editor's note, August 23, 8 am ET: We're bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave ...",
  "author": "Sigal Samuel",
  "categories": ["Advice", "Family", "Future Perfect", "Life", "Parenting", "Relationships", "The Highlight", "Your Mileage May Vary"]
}

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).
articleBody	string	Full plain-text article content (article mode only).
description	string	Article summary/dek.
keywords / categories	array	Topic tags (keywords in article mode, categories in latest mode).
author	array or string	Byline — array of {name, url} objects in article mode, a single name string in latest mode.
articleSection	string	Section name (article mode only).
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publication timestamps (article mode).
pubDate / updated	string	Publication/update timestamps (latest mode).
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).