CASC SpaceChina Corporate News Scraper
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CASC SpaceChina Corporate News Scraper
Scrapes press releases and corporate news from SpaceChina.com — the public news portal of CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation). Extracts articles from the 集团要闻, 媒体聚焦, and 专题报道 subchannels with full body text, publish date, and subsidiary mentions.
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Scrapes press releases and corporate news from SpaceChina.com — the public news portal of CASC (China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation / 中国航天科技集团有限公司). Extracts structured articles from three news subchannels with full body text, publication date, image URLs, and automatic CASC subsidiary detection.
What it collects
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
article_id | Unique numeric ID from the article URL (e.g. 4632103) |
subchannel | Source subchannel: 集团要闻, 媒体聚焦, or 专题报道 |
title_zh | Article title in Chinese |
body_html | Full article body HTML (empty for Media Focus headlines) |
body_text | Full article body as plain text (empty for Media Focus headlines) |
publish_date | Publication date (ISO 8601, e.g. 2026-06-11) |
source_url | Canonical article URL |
mentioned_subsidiaries | CASC academy/subsidiary names detected in body (一院 through 八院, CALT, CAST, SAST) |
images | Absolute URLs of embedded article images |
Subchannels covered
| Key | Chinese | English |
|---|---|---|
jtyw | 集团要闻 | Group News — primary launch and operations press releases |
mjjj | 媒体聚焦 | Media Focus — external press coverage aggregated |
ztbd | 专题报道 | Special Reports — themed coverage index (missions, events, policy): title, topic link and cover image |
The actor crawls all pages within each selected subchannel, following the site's paginated listing structure automatically.
Input
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
maxItems | integer | Yes | Maximum number of articles to scrape. Set to a high value (or remove the cap) for a full historical crawl (~3,000+ articles across all subchannels). |
subchannels | array | Yes | Which subchannels to include. Accepts any combination of jtyw, mjjj, ztbd. Default: all three. |
Example input
Use cases
- Defense and aerospace intelligence — Track every CASC press release mentioning specific launch vehicles, academies, or programs.
- ESG / sanctions screening — Identify CASC subsidiaries (一院 through 八院) named in corporate announcements for mil-civ fusion exposure mapping.
- Trade compliance — Monitor export-control-relevant announcements (new satellite programs, foreign partnerships, dual-use technology disclosures).
- Topic tracking — Follow which missions, events and programs CASC runs themed coverage for, from the 专题报道 index.
- Research and journalism — Build a full-text searchable archive of CASC's public-facing communications.
Notes
- Chinese-language content: All articles are in Simplified Chinese. The
body_textfield is suitable for NLP pipelines and translation workflows. - Media Focus and Special Reports: these channels index coverage hosted elsewhere, so their records are headline rows (title, link, date where shown, any CASC academy named in the title) with no body text. Group News returns full articles.
- Subsidiary detection: The
mentioned_subsidiariesfield uses pattern-matching on the body text for the eight CASC academies and their common abbreviations. It is heuristic and may miss references using full official names. - Historical depth: The site retains articles back to at least 2013 across all subchannels, representing the full accessible archive of CASC's public news.
