LAVCA News, Deals & Features Scraper

Extract LAVCA's full 6,400+ post content archive — deal cases, member profiles, newsletters, and industry news — via the public WordPress REST API. Every record ships with resolved author and category names plus light NER extraction of company, investor, and LATAM country mentions from the post body.

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What does this actor do?

LAVCA (Latin American Venture Capital Association) is the authoritative research and advocacy body for private capital in Latin America. Their content archive spans 15+ years of deal cases, member profiles, entrepreneur spotlights, newsletters, and weekly industry news — the gold-standard LATAM-VC narrative dataset.

This actor queries LAVCA's public WordPress REST API, paginates through the full post catalog, and returns structured records with:

• Full post metadata (title, slug, dates, permalink, excerpt, full HTML body)
• Resolved author name and category labels
• Yoast SEO JSON block (canonical URL, OG tags, article schema)
• Light named-entity extraction: companies mentioned, investor/fund names, and LATAM country mentions detected in the body text

Who needs this data?

• LATAM expansion consultants — map deal flow and M&A activity by country and sector
• Regional fund analysts — track portfolio companies and co-investors across deal cases
• Academic researchers — longitudinal analysis of LATAM venture capital narrative trends
• Competitive intelligence teams — monitor LAVCA's coverage of specific funds and portfolio companies

Input configuration

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum records to return. Leave blank for the full archive (~6,400 posts).
categories	array	["industry-news"]	Filter by category slug(s). Valid values: industry-news, lavca-in-the-news, newsletters, press-releases, private-capital-update, venture-bulletin. Leave empty for all.
dateFrom	string	—	Filter posts published on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD).
dateTo	string	—	Filter posts published on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD).

Output schema

Each record in the dataset:

Field	Type	Description
post_id	integer	WordPress post ID
title	string	Post title (HTML stripped)
slug	string	URL slug
date_published	string	Publication timestamp (ISO 8601)
date_modified	string	Last-modified timestamp (ISO 8601)
permalink	string	Canonical post URL
excerpt	string	Short excerpt (HTML stripped)
content_html	string	Full post body as raw HTML
author_id	integer	WordPress author user ID
author_name	string	Resolved author display name
categories	array	Category names (e.g. ["Industry News"])
tags	array	Tag IDs (LAVCA does not use tags)
featured_media_url	string	URL to the featured image media endpoint, or empty string
yoast_schema_jsonld	string	Yoast SEO head JSON block serialized as a string
companies_mentioned	array	Company names extracted from the post body
investor_funds_mentioned	array	Investor/fund names extracted from the post body
countries_mentioned	array	LATAM country names detected in the post body

Example output

{
  "post_id": 32274,
  "title": "Explorador Capital, Terra Oil Investments, Amos Global Energy and Others Acquire Hydrocarbon Concessions in Santa Cruz",
  "slug": "explorador-capital-terra-oil-...",
  "date_published": "2026-05-21T20:32:48",
  "date_modified": "2026-05-21T20:32:48",
  "permalink": "https://www.lavca.org/explorador-capital-...",
  "excerpt": "Explorador Capital, Terra Oil Investments, Amos Global Energy and others acquired hydrocarbon concessions in Argentina.",
  "content_html": "<p>...</p>",
  "author_id": 309,
  "author_name": "Vicki Jacobson",
  "categories": ["Industry News"],
  "tags": [],
  "featured_media_url": "",
  "yoast_schema_jsonld": "{\"title\":\"...\",\"og_type\":\"article\",...}",
  "companies_mentioned": [],
  "investor_funds_mentioned": ["Explorador Capital", "Terra Oil Investments"],
  "countries_mentioned": ["Argentina"]
}

Usage notes

• A full archive run (~6,400 posts) takes approximately 15–20 minutes and uses 512 MB memory.
• The categories filter maps slugs to WP category IDs at runtime — any unrecognised slug fetches all posts instead.
• featured_media_url returns the WP media API endpoint URL (not a direct image URL) when a featured image exists.
• NER patterns target fund/company names with common corporate suffixes and an explicit LATAM country list. They may miss uncommon name formats.