# Al Jazeera Article Scraper (`kibaale/aljazeera-scraper`) Actor

Complete Al Jazeera articles as clean structured records — full body text with subheadings preserved in reading order, plus headline, authors, section, timestamps, summary, tags and word count. One article URL in, one tidy record out.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/kibaale/aljazeera-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [kibalee](https://apify.com/kibaale) (community)
- **Categories:**
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Al Jazeera Article Scraper

Complete Al Jazeera articles as clean, structured records — full body text
with subheadings preserved in reading order, plus headline, authors, section,
timestamps, summary, tags and word count. One article URL in, one tidy
record out.

### What you get

- **The complete article** — paragraphs and subheadings, in reading order
- **Editorial metadata** — headline, authors, section, publication times,
  summary, topic tags, word count
- **No login, no account, no API key** — paste the URL and run
- **Nothing to install** — runs fully in the cloud
- **Always fresh** — content is fetched live on every run, never a stale copy
- **Stable schema** — the same record shape for every article, easy to parse

### Quick start

Input — just the article URL:

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/27/palestinian-children-return-to-school-under-threat-of-israel-demolition"
}
```

### Example result

Real output for the URL above (article body truncated):

```json
{
  "id": "4886288",
  "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/8/27/palestinian-children-return-to-school-under-threat-of-israel-demolition",
  "headline": "Palestinian children return to school under threat of Israel demolition",
  "byline": [],
  "section": "Features",
  "sectionUrl": "/features/",
  "firstPublished": "2026-08-27T06:01:17",
  "lastModified": "2026-08-27T06:01:17",
  "wordCount": 755,
  "summary": "As new school year begins, children in West Bank's Masafer Yatta face threat that their schools may not remain standing.",
  "tags": ["education", "human-rights", "israel-palestine-conflict", "occupied-west-bank"],
  "body": [
    "Farah, Mohammed and Jawad are getting ready for the new school year in Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank.",
    "The children, aged 17, 8, and 7 respectively, attend Shaab al-Butum school in a village with the same name. But the building they'll return to will be missing two administrative rooms and a storage room after Israeli forces demolished them on August 4.",
    "..."
  ]
}
```

### Field reference

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `headline` | Article title |
| `seoHeadline` | Longer headline variant used in search-result previews (when provided) |
| `kicker` | Short label shown above the headline (often empty) |
| `byline` | Author name(s) — empty when the piece lists no author |
| `section` | News section the article appears in |
| `sectionUrl` | Link to that section on the site |
| `summary` | Short description of the piece |
| `tags` | Topic labels attached by the publisher |
| `firstPublished` | Date and time the article was published |
| `lastModified` | Date and time the article was last updated |
| `wordCount` | Number of words in the article |
| `body` | Full article text — one list item per paragraph or subheading, in order |
| `id` | Stable publisher identifier (the same article always returns the same id) |
| `url` | The article URL that was fetched |

### Ideas

- News monitoring and alert feeds
- Middle East & world news research
- Press tracking and media analysis
- Databases for AI and content pipelines

### FAQ

**Do I need an account?** No — Al Jazeera articles are public, and the actor
needs only the URL.

**Why is the byline empty for some articles?** Some pieces do not list an
individual author — the field is left empty in that case.

**Do some articles fail?** A small number of Al Jazeera pages (some opinion
pieces and live-update pages) are not served with a standard article layout
and return a clear error message.

**Is the content fresh?** Yes — every run fetches the article as it is
published right now.

**Can I scrape many articles?** Each run takes one article URL. Run the actor
as often as you like — on a schedule, or once per URL — and every run adds
one record to the dataset.

# Actor input Schema

## `url` (type: `string`):

Full URL of the aljazeera.com article.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/palestinian-children-return-to-school-under-threat-of-israel-demolition"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Article records stored in the run's default dataset

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/palestinian-children-return-to-school-under-threat-of-israel-demolition"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("kibaale/aljazeera-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/palestinian-children-return-to-school-under-threat-of-israel-demolition" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("kibaale/aljazeera-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/palestinian-children-return-to-school-under-threat-of-israel-demolition"
}' |
apify call kibaale/aljazeera-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,kibaale/aljazeera-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/W4Eog93vY0OHmJUTP/builds/rZImRa9fFgu399Og3/openapi.json