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Harvest Edge / NOS News Scraper

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Overview

The NOS News Scraper extracts news articles from NOS.nl, the Dutch public news broadcaster in the Netherlands. It scrapes article metadata (title, summary, date, URL) and full text from user-selected categories like General News, Politics, or Technology. Collect Dutch news content for analysis or archiving. Responsible scraping with a configurable delay between page requests (default: 0.7 seconds).

Nederland, Holland, Nieuws, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, Economie, Binnenland, Buitenland, Finance, RTL, DPG.

Feel free to contact us via Apify for feature requests and bugs.

Features

• Scrapes articles from 10 user-selectable categories (e.g., Algemeen, Binnenland, Tech).
• Extracts comprehensive article data: title, summary, date, URL, and full text.
• Supports scraping any number of available articles.
• Configurable delay between each page request to avoid getting timed out and for compliance.

Input

The Actor accepts the following input parameters via the Apify platform:

Key	Type	Description	Default	Required
topic	String	News category to scrape (e.g., Algemeen, Tech).	"Algemeen"	Yes
maxArticles	Integer	Number of articles to scrape (minimum 1).	100	Yes
throttleDelay	Number	Delay between page requests in milliseconds (minimum 100).	700	Yes

Available Topics:

• Algemeen (General News)
• Binnenland (Domestic News)
• Buitenland (International News)
• Regionaal (Regional News)
• Politiek (Politics)
• Economie (Economy)
• Koningshuis (Royal Family)
• Tech (Technology)
• Cultuur en Media (Culture and Media)
• Opmerkelijk (Remarkable)

Note: Categories typically list up to 25 articles, except General News (Algemeen) which lists 100.

Output

The Actor outputs a dataset in JSON format with the following fields for each article:

Field	Type	Description
id	String	Unique identifier for the article.
title	String	Article title.
summary	String	Article summary.
date	String	Publication date.
url	String	Article URL.
scrape_timestamp	String	Timestamp of when the article was scraped.
topic	String	Selected news category.
article_text	String	Full text of the article.

Example Output:

{
  "id": "2025-09-24 18:09:00_1",
  "title": "Example News Article",
  "summary": "A brief summary of the article.",
  "date": "vandaag, 12:00",
  "url": "https://www.nos.nl/article/123456",
  "scrape_timestamp": "2025-09-24 18:09:00",
  "topic": "Algemeen",
  "article_text": "Full text of the news article..."
}