New York Times Article Scraper

Complete New York Times articles as clean, structured records — full body text, headline, authors, section, timestamps, summary, tags and word count. One article URL in, one tidy record out.

Works even where nytimes.com itself is blocked or unreachable from your network — if you can run this actor, you get the article.

What you get

• The complete article — every paragraph of the body, in reading order
• Editorial metadata — headline, authors, section, publication & update times, summary, topic tags, word count
• No login, no subscription, 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:

{
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/canada/carney-canada-trump-tariffs-retaliate.html"
}

Example result

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

{
  "id": "QXJ0aWNsZTpueXQ6Ly9hcnRpY2xlLzA1YjQ1NjMyLTdiMzItNTNmZi1hODlmLTYyZTU4ZWI0ZDUwNw==",
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/canada/carney-canada-trump-tariffs-retaliate.html",
  "headline": "Canadians Stand Their Ground as Trade War Intensifies",
  "byline": ["Vjosa Isai"],
  "section": "World",
  "sectionUrl": "/section/world",
  "firstPublished": "2026-08-26T09:03:57.000Z",
  "lastModified": "2026-08-27T03:14:20.479Z",
  "wordCount": 881,
  "summary": "Business owners are preparing for financial pain after the latest U.S.-Canada trade talks collapsed. But many Canadians are embracing a show of resistance.",
  "tags": ["Canada", "US", "Tariff", "Mark Carney", "Donald Trump", "..."],
  "body": [
    "Canadians responded to President Trump's first round of tariffs a year and a half ago with a grass-roots effort to bruise the United States, boycotting alcohol, vegetables and cross-border travel.",
    "They rallied around the flag, inspected grocery labels like detectives and shopped local, all while Prime Minister Mark Carney looked across the ocean for new trade partnerships.",
    "..."
  ]
}

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)
section	News section the article appears in
sectionUrl	Link to that section on the site
summary	Short editor's 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, 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
• Research archives and clipping libraries
• Media tracking and competitive analysis
• Databases for AI and content pipelines

FAQ

Do I need a New York Times account or subscription? No. Paste the public article URL and run.

Why is the site blocked for me but this still works? NYT restricts access from some networks. This scraper does not depend on loading the website, so the article comes through even where the site will not open.

Do some articles fail? A small share of older pieces is no longer served in full. Those return a clear error message so you know exactly which URL needs a second look.

Is the content fresh? Yes — every run fetches the article as it is published right now, including its latest update time.

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.