Al Jazeera News Scraper

An Apify Actor that scrapes the latest news articles from Al Jazeera using Python, Requests, and BeautifulSoup, and stores the results in an Apify Dataset.

Features

• Extracts each article's title, link, image, and image alt text
• Controls the number of articles through a single, simple input
• Enforces a safe maximum (10 articles) to avoid overloading the website
• Returns clean, structured JSON output ready for use

Input

{
  "maxitems": 5
  }

Note: If a value greater than 10 is provided, the Actor automatically limits the result to 10 articles.

Output

Scraped articles are stored in an Apify Dataset. Each item looks like this:

{
  "title": "Article title",
    "link": "https://www.aljazeera.net/...",
      "image": "https://www.aljazeera.net/...",
        "alt": "Image description"
        }
        ```

        ### Dataset Fields

        | Field   | Description                |
        |---------|----------------------------|
        | `title` | Article title              |
        | `link`  | Article URL                |
        | `image` | Article image URL          |
        | `alt`   | Image alternative text     |

        ## Quick Start

        1. **Run the Actor locally:**

           ```bash
              apify run
                 ```

                 2. **Log in to Apify:**

                    ```bash
                       apify login
                          ```

                          3. **Push the Actor to the Apify platform:**

                             ```bash
                                apify push
                                   ```

                                   ## Technologies

                                   - [Python](https://www.python.org/)
                                   - [Requests](https://requests.readthedocs.io/)
                                   - [BeautifulSoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)
                                   - [Apify Python SDK](https://docs.apify.com/sdk/python/)

                                   ## Notes

                                   - The Actor relies on the website's current page structure and may need updating if Al Jazeera changes its layout.
                                   - Please respect Al Jazeera's terms of use when using the scraped data.