BeiDou Navigation System News Scraper
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BeiDou Navigation System News Scraper
Scrapes official news, announcements, and policies from beidou.gov.cn — China's BDS satellite navigation authority. Covers 5 sub-channels: news, announcements, policy, data exchange, and applications. Outputs zh-CN articles with title, content, publish date, source, images, and attachments.
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Scrape official news, announcements, policies, and technical bulletins from beidou.gov.cn — the Chinese government's BDS satellite navigation authority (国务院北斗办).
What this actor does
Crawls 5 official sub-channels of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System website:
| Sub-channel | Chinese name | Content |
|---|---|---|
xwzx | 新闻中心 | News center — main news (~1000+ articles) |
gfgg | 公告公示 | Official announcements & notices |
zcfg | 政策法规 | Policy & regulations |
sjjl | 数据交流 | Data exchange bulletins |
yytg | 应用推广 | Application promotion & use cases |
For each article, it extracts the title, full body text and HTML, publish date, source publication, images, file attachments, and satellite system references (BDS-3, GEO, IGSO, MEO mentions).
Who uses this
- Aviation and maritime authorities tracking BDS-3 signal-in-space accuracy and anomaly announcements
- BDS service providers in BRI countries monitoring policy changes
- Researchers tracking dual-use satellite navigation policy
- Organizations needing zh-CN primary-source data on GNSS developments
Input parameters
| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | 10 | Maximum number of articles to scrape. Set to 0 for all. |
subchannels | array | all | Sub-channels to include. Omit to scrape all 5 channels. |
Example input (scrape recent news + announcements)
Output schema
Each record contains:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
article_id | string | Article ID from URL (e.g. t20260609_29339) |
subchannel | string | Sub-channel key (xwzx, gfgg, etc.) |
subchannel_name | string | Sub-channel name in Chinese |
title_zh | string | Article title (Chinese) |
body_text | string | Full article body as plain text |
body_html | string | Full article body as HTML |
publish_date | string | Publish date (YYYY-MM-DD) |
source | string | Source publication (e.g. 人民网, 新华网) |
source_url | string | Canonical article URL |
images | string | Pipe-separated absolute image URLs from the article |
attachments | string | Pipe-separated attachment URLs (.pdf, .doc, etc.) |
related_satellites | string | Pipe-separated BDS satellite references found in text |
scrapedAt | string | ISO-8601 scrape timestamp |
Sample record
Notes
- All content is in Simplified Chinese (zh-CN).
- The site is server-rendered with no anti-bot measures. No proxy required.
- Pagination uses
index_N.htmlformat (e.g.index_1.htmlthroughindex_76.htmlfor xwzx). - The xwzx (news center) channel has ~77 pages x 13 articles = ~1000 articles total.
- Generous 60-second per-request timeout is set to handle occasional CN government server latency.
