🛰️ 404 Media Articles Scraper

🚀 Export 404 Media articles in seconds. Pull the latest tech investigative journalism with title, link, author, image, and summary in one run.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-25 · 📊 10 fields per record · Latest 15 to 30 articles per run · Worldwide tech coverage

404 Media is the journalist-owned tech publication founded by former Motherboard staff covering AI, surveillance, hacking, online culture, and tech labor. This actor exports the latest 404 Media articles with title, link, author, hero image, categories, publish date, and summary, all from the public RSS feed in real time.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Tech journalists, PR teams	Track 404 Media coverage of AI, platforms, surveillance
Newsletter editors	Curate weekly tech investigative reads
Researchers, academics	Compile reading lists on tech labor and culture
Sentiment analysts	Feed article text into NLP pipelines

📋 What the 404 Media Articles Scraper does

• Fetches the live 404 Media RSS feed in real time
• Extracts hero image, title, URL, author, categories, publish date, and summary
• Returns clean records ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML export
• Decodes HTML entities and strips inline markup
• Limits records to the count you choose with maxItems

💡 Why it matters: 404 Media breaks original tech stories that often shape the broader news cycle. This scraper turns the feed into a structured dataset you can index, search, or pipe into automations.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Description
maxItems	integer	Free users limited to 10 items. Paid users up to 1,000,000. Defaults to 10.

{ "maxItems": 5 }

{ "maxItems": 30 }

⚠️ Good to Know: The 404 Media RSS feed exposes the most recent ~20-30 articles. Schedule the actor for ongoing coverage.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	string	Hero image URL
📌 title	string	Article headline
🔗 url	string	Canonical 404 Media article URL
✍️ author	string	Article author
🏷️ categories	string[]	Article categories
🗓️ publishedAt	ISO date	Original publish timestamp
📝 summary	string	Article description, HTML stripped
📡 source	string	Always "404 Media"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO date	When this record was collected
❌ error	string	Null on success

Real sample records:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715026323270-564a788bbadc?...",
  "title": "An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation",
  "url": "https://www.404media.co/an-incomplete-list-of-successful-anti-data-center-legislation/",
  "author": "Matthew Gault",
  "categories": ["News"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-25T13:00:30.000Z",
  "summary": "No one wants to live next to a noisy computer warehouse and communities across the country are successfully fighting them.",
  "source": "404 Media"
}

{
  "title": "Corpse Point in the Arctic Is Melting, Disturbing Centuries-Old Bodies",
  "url": "https://www.404media.co/corpse-point-in-the-arctic-is-melting-disturbing-centuries-old-bodies/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-23T13:00:55.000Z",
  "source": "404 Media"
}

{
  "title": "Here's the Bodycam Footage of the Cybertruck That Drove Into a Lake",
  "url": "https://www.404media.co/heres-the-bodycam-footage-of-the-cybertruck-that-drove-into-a-lake/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-22T21:03:03.000Z",
  "source": "404 Media"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

• ⚡ Live data, no caching, ~3-second runs
• 🧼 Clean text, decoded entities, no inline HTML
• 🪶 No proxy required, lightweight footprint
• 🧪 Stable schema
• 🆓 Free tier: 10 articles per run

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Speed	Setup	Structured	Cost
ParseForge 404 Media Scraper	Fast	None	Yes	Pay-per-event
Manual copy from 404media.co	Slow	None	No	Free
RSS reader app	Fast	Account	Partial	Free / paid
Custom scraper	Slow	Code	Yes	Dev time

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 starter credit
2. Open the actor page on Apify Store
3. Set maxItems
4. Click "Run"
5. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💼 Business use cases

PR and brand monitoring — Track 404 Media coverage of your company, products, or industry.

Editorial intelligence — Auto-curate weekly tech investigative reading lists.

Research and academia — Study tech journalism patterns and topic distribution.

Sentiment analysis — Feed article text into NLP models.

🔌 Automating 404 Media Articles Scraper

Connect to Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, Slack, Google Drive, GitHub Actions, or any HTTP-capable platform.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Academic research — Study tech journalism economics over time.

Personal reading — Build a weekly digest of 404 Media stories.

Non-profit advocacy — Track coverage of surveillance, AI ethics, tech labor.

Creative experimentation — Use headlines as story prompts.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Microsoft Copilot.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Is this affiliated with 404 Media? No. Independent tool, public RSS data only.

❓ How many articles can I get per run? Up to ~30 most recent from the RSS feed.

❓ Full article body? No, summaries only. 404 Media is subscriber supported.

❓ Freshness? Real-time, every run hits the live feed.

❓ API key? Not needed.

❓ Filter by author? Filter the output dataset in your BI tool.

❓ Proxy? Not required.

❓ Clean summaries? Yes, HTML stripped, entities decoded.

❓ Scheduling? Use Apify Schedules.

❓ Output format? CSV, Excel, JSON, XML.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, Slack, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Microsoft Teams, Notion, Airtable, BigQuery, Snowflake, GitHub Actions, AWS Lambda, plus any REST-capable system.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with 404 Media. Only publicly available RSS data is collected.