📰 Defector Media Articles Scraper

🚀 Export Defector Media articles in seconds. Pull the latest worker-owned sports, culture, and politics journalism with full metadata in one run.

Defector Media is the independent, worker-owned sports and culture outlet launched by former Deadspin staff. This actor exports the latest articles published on Defector with title, link, author, categories, publish date, and summary. Data is collected from the public RSS feed in real time.

Every record covers one article with the same shape so the dataset slots into BI tools, content monitoring dashboards, or alert pipelines.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Media monitors, PR analysts	Track Defector coverage of brands, athletes, leagues
Journalists, researchers	Compile reading lists, study sports media trends
Newsletter editors	Curate weekly roundups of independent sports journalism
Sentiment analysts	Feed article text into NLP pipelines

📋 What the Defector Articles Scraper does

• Fetches the live Defector Media RSS feed in real time
• Extracts title, canonical URL, author, categories, publish date, and summary for each article
• Returns clean, structured records ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML export
• Decodes HTML entities and strips inline markup so summaries are clean text
• Limits records to the count you choose with the maxItems input

💡 Why it matters: Defector publishes long-form sports and politics writing that rarely shows up in mainstream aggregators. This scraper turns the feed into a structured dataset you can index, search, or pipe into automations.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: author, categories, publishedAt, results, scrapedAt, summary, title, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account with $5 starter credit
2. Open the actor page on Apify Store
3. Set maxItems (defaults to 10)
4. Click "Run"
5. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

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

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