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TechCrunch & Startup News AI Digest Extractor

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Extract breaking technology startup news, AI innovations, venture capital rounds, and market trends from TechCrunch feeds. Includes author, timestamps, tags, and excerpts.

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📰 TechCrunch & Startup News AI Digest Extractor

Extract breaking technology startup news, artificial intelligence announcements, venture capital rounds, and market intelligence from TechCrunch. Delivers structured, clean JSON with headlines, author handles, publication timestamps, category tags, and clean article excerpts.

🥊 Why This Actor Beats the Competition

Feature	This Actor (Pay-Per-Result)	Web Browsers (Puppeteer)	Raw RSS Readers
Speed	⚡ Under 3 seconds per category feed	10–20 seconds per page	Fast, but unparsed messy XML
Clean JSON Output	✅ Standardized schema with ISO dates & tags	Requires heavy regex	Raw XML strings
Topic Categorization	✅ Filter by AI, Startups, Venture, Security	Complex pagination	No cross-category filtering
Pricing	💰 $1.00 / 1,000 articles (PPR)	High compute instance costs	Free, but manual upkeep

🛠️ Step-by-Step: How to Use

Method 1: Apify Web Console

Select categories in TechCrunch Categories (e.g. artificial-intelligence, startups, venture).
Set Max Articles to Extract (e.g. 15).
Click Start to run and export the data.

Method 2: Python SDK

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
run = client.actor("litezero/techcrunch-ai-news-scraper").call(run_input={
    "categories": ["artificial-intelligence", "startups"],
    "maxArticles": 20
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"[{item['category']}] {item['title']} - by {item['author']}")

📥 Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
`categories`	Array	`["artificial-intelligence", "startups"]`	TechCrunch categories to scrape.
`maxArticles`	Integer	`15`	Maximum articles to extract.
`searchFilter`	String	`""`	Optional keyword to filter headlines.

📤 Output Sample JSON

{
  "title": "Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused",
  "link": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/meta-muse-gadget/",
  "author": "TechCrunch Staff",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-03T08:45:00.000Z",
  "category": "artificial-intelligence",
  "tags": ["AI", "Hardware", "Meta"],
  "excerpt": "Meta announced a new developer initiative today...",
  "guid": "https://techcrunch.com/?p=123456",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-03T09:20:00.000Z"
}

💡 Top Commercial Use Cases

Daily AI Intelligence Briefings: Aggregate AI news for executive Slack channels and automated email digests.
VC Deal Sourcing: Monitor newly funded seed and Series A startups announced on TechCrunch.
Sentiment & Media Monitoring: Track PR coverage and competitor brand mentions across tech media.\n

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