💉 Fierce Biotech News Scraper

🚀 Export Fierce Biotech news in seconds. Title, author, publish date, category, summary, URL, and lead image from the public Fierce Biotech RSS feeds.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-06-05 · 📊 9 fields per record · Fierce Biotech · 6 section feeds · Real-time

The Fierce Biotech News Scraper turns the public Fierce Biotech RSS feeds into a flat dataset. Pull the latest biotech, regulatory, clinical, R&D, and deals stories.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
💊 Biotech analysts	Track competitor announcements
📈 Investors	Monitor pivotal news
📰 Media monitoring	Aggregate with other biotech feeds
🤖 OSINT	Feed news into dashboards
🏢 BD teams	Track licensing and partnership news
👩‍💻 Developers	Skip RSS parsing

📋 What the Fierce Biotech News Scraper does

• Pulls the live Fierce Biotech RSS for the selected section.
• Parses each article into a flat row with title, author, date, summary, URL, and lead image.
• Filters by keyword substring.
• Surfaces empty results as a clean error row.
• Exports to your preferred dataset format.

💡 Why it matters: Fierce Biotech is one of the most-read biopharma news outlets. This actor pipes it directly into your monitoring stack.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
keyword	string	No	Substring filter.
maxItems	integer	No	Free 10, paid up to 1,000,000.
feed	enum	No	Main, research, regulatory, clinical, deals, R&D.

Example 1, latest clinical data

{ "feed": "clinical", "maxItems": 25 }

Example 2, regulatory news matching 'FDA'

{ "feed": "regulatory", "keyword": "FDA", "maxItems": 25 }

⚠️ Good to Know: The Fierce Biotech RSS feed shows the most recent items, typically the latest 20-30 per section.

📊 Output

Field	Type	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	string	Lead image.
📝 title	string	Article title.
✍️ author	string	Byline.
📅 publishDate	string	Publish timestamp.
🏷️ category	string	Section.
📖 summary	string	Plain-text summary.
🔗 url	string	Permalink.
🕒 scrapedAt	string	Fetch timestamp.
❌ error	string	Error message if any.

{
  "imageUrl": "https://www.fiercebiotech.com/sites/default/files/example.jpg",
  "title": "Oncology biotech wins fast-track designation",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "publishDate": "Thu, 05 Jun 2026 11:00:00 +0000",
  "category": "Regulatory",
  "summary": "The FDA granted fast-track status to...",
  "url": "https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/oncology-biotech-wins",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-05T12:00:00.000Z",
  "error": null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Public RSS, no key required. | | 🧹 | Plain-text summaries with lead image. | | 🎯 | 6 section feeds. | | 🔌 | Pipe straight into your news stack. | | 💾 | Push to dataset, instant export. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Categories	Image
Email newsletter	Manual	Limited	No
Custom RSS reader	1 hr	All	Sometimes
This Actor	5 sec	Built-in	Yes

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick a feed.
3. Click Start.

💼 Business use cases

📈 Daily intelligence digest. Combine regulatory and deals feeds into one digest.

🤝 BD prospecting. Monitor partnership announcements.

📰 Media monitoring. Pipe into PR tools.

🤖 AI summaries. Feed into an LLM digest pipeline.

🔌 Automating Fierce Biotech News Scraper

• Make / Zapier trigger and push to Slack or Notion.
• Cron scheduler via Apify, hourly.
• Webhooks on run completion.
• Pipe to BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres via integrations.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Teaching. Show students how news drives biotech valuations.

🧪 Personal interest. Track a favorite therapeutic area.

🤝 Patient advocacy. Spot trial readouts.

🧰 Prototyping. Build a news app fast.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need a subscription? No.

❓ How fresh is the feed? Minutes after publishing.

❓ How many items? Typically 20-30 per feed.

❓ Are summaries full? Excerpts only.

❓ Lead image? Pulled from media:content or article body when present.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes.

❓ Is this scraping? Public RSS only.

❓ Will the schema change? Core fields stable.

❓ HTML entities decoded? Yes.

❓ Download format? Any format Apify supports.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST or webhook endpoint.

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