📰 Newspapers Scraper

❓ What is this scraper?

This scraper extracts structured newspaper archive data from Newspapers.com — the largest online newspaper archive consisting of over 1 billion pages from 30,700+ newspapers across the United States and beyond.

Newspapers provide a unique view of the past, helping users understand and connect with people, events, and cultural attitudes from earlier times.

The extracted data is normalized into a structured format, making it easy to use for analysis, integrations, or storage.

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⚡ Why this scraper?

Newspapers.com offers a powerful way to explore historical content, and this scraper allows you to:

• Discover historical newspaper archives and publications
• Build datasets for research, genealogy, or education
• Extract metadata like publication years, locations, and total pages
• Collect newspaper clippings and images at scale
• Analyze historical trends, events, and public records

Perfect for:

• Historians
• Genealogists
• Family historians
• Researchers
• Teachers

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📥 Input

{
  "maxItems": 5,
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.newspapers.com/papers/"
    }
  ],
  "maxNumOfClippingsPerPaper": 1,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

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📤 Output

Each newspaper is returned as a structured JSON object:

{
  "url": "https://www.newspapers.com/paper/the-69th-brigade-sentinel/12243/",
  "name": "The 69th Brigade Sentinel Archive",
  "location": "Topeka, Kansas",
  "startYear": 1976,
  "endYear": 1977,
  "totalPages": 28,
  "about": "Explore The 69th Brigade Sentinel online newspaper archive. The 69th Brigade Sentinel was published in Topeka, Kansas and includes 28 searchable pages from 1976-1977.",
  "sourceInfo": "The 69th Brigade Sentinel, 1976–1977 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2026. Last updated: 28 February 2019",
  "coverImage": "https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/527424990/",
  "breadcrumbs": [
    {
      "label": "United States",
      "href": "https://www.newspapers.com/browse/united-states/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Kansas",
      "href": "https://www.newspapers.com/browse/united-states/kansas/"
    },
    {
      "label": "Topeka",
      "href": "https://www.newspapers.com/browse/united-states/kansas/topeka/"
    }
  ],
  "clippings": [
    {
      "clipping_id": 157974731,
      "page_date": "1976-05-31",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://img.newspapers.com/img/thumbnail/527424936/400/400/779_352_287_187.jpg",
      "user_username": "hughkang",
      "publication": {
        "id": 12243,
        "name": "The 69th Brigade Sentinel",
        "location": "Topeka, Kansas"
      }
    },
    {
      "clipping_id": 157974721,
      "page_date": "1977-06-01",
      "thumbnail_url": "https://img.newspapers.com/img/thumbnail/527424966/400/400/2866_4923_1380_581.jpg",
      "user_username": "hughkang",
      "publication": {
        "id": 12243,
        "name": "The 69th Brigade Sentinel",
        "location": "Topeka, Kansas"
      }
    }
  ]
}

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Image Credit

Image Credit: https://www.newspapers.com/