🚀 Spaceflight News Scraper

🚀 Export space and astronomy news in seconds. Pull articles, blogs, and reports from NASA, SpaceX, ESA, NASASpaceflight, Ars Technica, SpacePolicyOnline and more, filtered by search term, source, launch, event, or date. No sign-up needed.

The Spaceflight News Scraper pulls from the official Spaceflight News aggregator, the largest open catalogue of space and astronomy news. Each record carries the article id, title, full URL, hero image, source name, summary, publication date, author list with social handles, featured flag, and any linked launches or spaceflight events. The aggregator is the canonical "one feed for the entire space industry" used by enthusiasts, journalists, and engineering teams.

Coverage spans 20+ trusted news outlets (NASA, SpaceX, ESA, NASASpaceflight, Ars Technica, SpaceNews, European Spaceflight, Space Scout, SpacePolicyOnline.com, Spaceflight Now, and more) across three content types (articles, blogs, reports), with linked launches and events from the Launch Library 2 catalogue. Filter by source, search term, featured status, launch ID, event ID, or publication date and download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under three minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Space-tech newsrooms, content aggregators, investor research desks, NewSpace startups, educators, podcasters, hobbyists, AI training-data teams	News-feed apps, mission timeline trackers, sentiment dashboards, launch-coverage roundups, RAG corpora for LLMs

📋 What the Spaceflight News Scraper does

Nine filtering inputs combine in a single run:

• 📰 Content type. Articles, blogs, reports, or all three at once.
• 🔍 Search term. Free-text search across title, summary, and body (e.g. Starship, James Webb, Mars).
• 🏛️ News site filter. Restrict to a single source by exact name (NASA, SpaceX, ESA, NASASpaceflight, Ars Technica, SpaceNews and more).
• ⭐ Featured filter. Only return featured/highlighted items.
• 🚀 Launch link. Find articles linked to a specific Launch Library 2 launch UUID.
• 🎯 Event link. Find articles linked to a specific spaceflight event ID.
• 📅 Date range. Earliest and latest publication date filters.
• 🔃 Ordering. Newest first, oldest first, featured first, or recently updated first.

Each record includes the article id, content type, title, canonical URL, hero image, source name, summary, full author list with optional social handles, featured flag, publication and update timestamps, linked launches with provider names, and linked events.

💡 Why it matters: the space industry generates dozens of stories every day across 20+ outlets. Aggregating them yourself means writing a parser per source. This Actor delivers a single, canonical, structured feed across every covered source in under three minutes.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: authors, contentType, featured, id, imageUrl, news_site, publishedDate, published_at, scrapedAt, summary, title, updated_at, url. All 13 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Spaceflight News Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a content type, optionally add a search term, source filter, or date range.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your news feed.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Spaceflight News, NASA, SpaceX, ESA, or any of the news outlets aggregated. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open news metadata is collected.

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