Indiatimes Scraper — India News, Tech, Sports, Bollywood & Net Worth Data

Scrape and extract structured data from Indiatimes.com, one of India's largest news, entertainment, and lifestyle portals owned by Times Internet (the Times of India group). This Actor turns any Indiatimes category, search query, or article URL into clean, ready-to-use JSON — no HTML parsing on your end.

Best for: Indian news monitoring, Bollywood & cricket content feeds, trending-topic research, celebrity net worth data, Gen Z & pop-culture tracking, and building news aggregators or NLP/LLM datasets.

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What this Actor does

• Browse 23 categories — every main section and sub-section of Indiatimes
• Keyword search — find the latest articles for any topic, person, or brand
• Full article extraction — title, author, publish/update dates, paragraph body text, inline images, and tags
• Structured JSON output — stored in an Apify dataset, exportable to JSON, CSV, Excel, or API

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What data can you extract?

• Trending & Viral News — what's buzzing in India and globally
• Technology — smartphones, AI, gadgets, apps, gaming
• Entertainment — Bollywood, Hollywood, anime, web series, TV shows
• Sports — cricket (IPL, World Cup), football, NBA, WWE
• News — India, world, politics, weird news
• Lifestyle — fashion, food, travel, relationships, dating trends
• Health & Wellness — fitness, mental health, medical tips
• Celebrity Net Worth — income, salary, business breakdowns
• Pop Culture — Gen Z trends, memes, internet culture
• Auto — cars, bikes, EV news
• Events — festivals, concerts, gatherings
• Fashion — style, trends, designer news

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Use Cases

• News aggregation — feed Indian news into your app or dashboard
• Content monitoring — track coverage of brands, topics, or people
• Media research — analyze trending topics and audience interests
• Data journalism — structured data for editorial analysis
• SEO research — discover trending keywords and topics in India
• Social listening — monitor what Indian audiences are reading
• AI / LLM datasets — collect clean article text for training and RAG

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How to use it

1. Open the Actor and pick a mode (articles, search, or detail).
2. Fill the matching fields (a category, a query, or an articleUrl).
3. Optionally enable Fetch Full Article Details to enrich every listing with full body text.
4. Click Start, then download results from the Dataset tab (JSON, CSV, Excel) or pull them via the Apify API.

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Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	string	Yes	articles (browse a category), search (keyword search), or detail (one article)
category	string	For articles	Category key, e.g. trending, sports/cricket
query	string	For search	Search keyword, e.g. cricket world cup, iphone
articleUrl	string	For detail	Full Indiatimes article URL
fetchDetails	boolean	No	In articles/search mode, fetch full body text for each result (slower, richer data)

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Available Categories

Main: trending, news, technology, entertainment, sports, lifestyle, health, worth, culture, fashion, events, auto

Sub-categories: news/india, news/world, news/weird, technology/news, technology/apps, technology/gaming, entertainment/bollywood, entertainment/hollywood, sports/cricket, sports/wwe, lifestyle/relationships

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Example Inputs

Get trending articles

{
    "mode": "articles",
    "category": "trending"
}

Search for a topic

{
    "mode": "search",
    "query": "cricket world cup"
}

Get full article with body text

{
    "mode": "detail",
    "articleUrl": "https://www.indiatimes.com/trending/thailand-scraps-visa-free-stay-for-indians-where-gen-z-travellers-can-go-instead/articleshow/131304242.html"
}

Get technology articles enriched with full details

{
    "mode": "articles",
    "category": "technology",
    "fetchDetails": true
}

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Output Format

Each dataset item is a clean JSON object. Listings include the core fields; detail mode and fetchDetails: true add the full body, images, tags, and timestamps:

{
    "title": "Article headline",
    "url": "https://www.indiatimes.com/...",
    "author": "Author Name",
    "summary": "Brief description of the article",
    "image_url": "https://staticimg.publishstory.co/...",
    "category": "trending",
    "published_at": "2026-05-25T14:15:07+05:30",
    "updated_at": "2026-05-25T14:15:07+05:30",
    "tags": ["keyword1", "keyword2"],
    "body": ["Paragraph 1...", "Paragraph 2..."],
    "images": [{ "url": "...", "caption": "" }]
}

The dataset ships with an Articles table view (title, URL, author, summary, image, category, published date, tags) so you can preview results in the Apify Console without exporting.

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Tips & Notes

• Search results are server-rendered for the first page only (Indiatimes uses client-side infinite scroll for older items), so search mode returns the most recent matches for a keyword.
• Enable fetchDetails only when you need full text — it makes one extra request per article.
• Be considerate with run frequency; this Actor reads public content from a live website.

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Keywords

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