IndoNews Crawler – Indonesian Online News Aggregator

What does IndoNews Crawler do?

IndoNews Crawler automatically crawls, enriches, and summarizes news articles from major Indonesian media outlets: Detik, Kompas, CNN, Beritasatu, etc. It provides sentiment, category, and emotion analysis with the latest news updates to help you understand current issues, trends, and media sentiment in Indonesia.

This actor can extract:

• Article titles
• Publication timestamps
• Media source names
• Sentiment and emotion labels
• Full text of the article
• Category or topic classification

Why scrape Indonesian news?

Online news is a key source of real-time public sentiment and issue tracking in Indonesia. IndoNews Crawler aggregates thousands of articles daily and helps organizations monitor, research, or analyze them at scale.

Here are some use cases:

• PR & brand monitoring
• Sentiment and trend analysis
• Academic or media research
• Building AI or NLP training datasets

If you’d like more inspiration on how web scraping could help your business, visit Apify’s industry pages.

How to use IndoNews Crawler

Scraping Indonesian online news with IndoNews Crawler is easy. Follow these simple steps to start collecting data in minutes.

1. Click Try for free on the actor’s Apify page.
2. Enter your search keywords, date range, and optional pagination parameters.
3. Click Run.
4. Once the run finishes, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab.

Input parameters

Field	Type	Description
keywords	string	Search keywords or topics to filter articles
startDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	Fetch news starting from this date, default yesterday
endDate	string (YYYY-MM-DD)	Fetch news up to this date, default today
limit	integer	Number of articles per page (default 50)
page	integer	Page number to retrieve

Output

The actor outputs structured data containing enriched and analyzed articles with sentiment, emotion, and category classification.

How much will it cost?

Apify gives you $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan. That’s enough to run IndoNews Crawler and fetch thousands of articles every month — completely free.

If you need continuous or large-scale crawling, we recommend the Starter plan at $49/month or higher for enterprise-scale operations.

IndoNews Crawler uses Apify’s Pay-Per-Event (PPE) monetization model. You pay only for the resources you use — no subscription lock-in.

Event	Description	Price (USD)
actor-start	Each time the actor is executed	$0.00005 per run
dataset-item	Per result (per news article retrieved)	$0.002 – $0.001 per result (the price automatically decreases as your usage volume increases)
date-filter	Each time the actor is executed	$0.008 – $0.005 per run (the price automatically decreases as your usage volume increases)

💵 Example Cost Calculations

Scenario	Articles Retrieved	Estimated Cost
Small batch	500	$0.00005 + (500 × $0.002) = $1.00
Medium batch	5 000	$0.00005 + (5 000 × $0.0015) ≈ $7.50
Large batch	20 000	$0.00005 + (20 000 × $0.001) = $20.00

Apify handles all billing automatically — you only pay for what you actually process. You’ll receive a full itemized breakdown of events per run.

Example results

Here is a sample of the data this actor produces:

{
  "title": "Otoritas Pasar Modal Salurkan Rp 3,96 Miliar untuk Pemulihan Bencana Banjir di Sumatera",
  "media_name": "Kompas",
  "published_at": "2026-02-23T20:40:00",
  "url": "https://money.kompas.com/read/2026/02/23/204000726/otoritas-pasar-modal-salurkan-rp-3-96-miliar-untuk-pemulihan-bencana-banjir-di",
  "image": "https://asset.kompas.com/crops/dCQpeGZO7ZSP5DKBk8BWrrXAKnU=/0x0:721x481/1200x800/data/photo/2026/01/02/695769417a808.jpg",
  "emotion": "Joy",
  "sentiment": "Positive",
  "category": "Disaster",
  "content": "JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Otoritas pasar modal Indonesia menyalurkan donasi sebesar Rp 3,96 miliar untuk mendukung percepatan pemulihan pasca bencana banjir dan longsor di Sumatera..."
}

Tips for using IndoNews Crawler

• Use clear and concise keywords for better relevance.
• Narrow down results with a reasonable date range.
• If you need daily monitoring, use Apify’s Scheduler to automate daily runs.
• Combine IndoNews Crawler output with other NLP or visualization tools for deeper insights.
• Track your usage and spending from the Billing → Usage summary in Apify Console.

Is it legal to scrape online news?

News content published publicly on media websites is generally permissible to crawl for analytical and non-commercial use. However, you should not republish or redistribute the full text of scraped articles without permission from the original publisher.

Always comply with copyright laws and local regulations. If you’re unsure, consult your legal counsel. You can also read Apify’s blog post on the legality of web scraping.

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🧾 Summary

• Name: IndoNews Crawler – Indonesian Online News Aggregator
• Category: Scrapers / AI / NLP
• Use case: Sentiment & trend analysis, news aggregation, data enrichment
• Pricing: $0.00005 per run + $0.002 – $0.001 per result
• Updated: Every few minutes
• Ideal for: PR agencies, researchers, analysts, and AI developers

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Start crawling Indonesia’s digital news landscape now with IndoNews Crawler and gain actionable insights daily.