📰 Techmeme Scraper

🚀 Export Techmeme tech news stories to CSV, JSON, or Excel in seconds. No API key, no login, no code required.

Techmeme is the definitive aggregator of tech news - curated by editors and algorithms from hundreds of sources including WSJ, CNBC, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, and The Verge. This actor scrapes the latest tech news stories directly from the Techmeme homepage in real-time, giving you clean structured data including headlines, source publications, summaries, related coverage clusters, and publication dates. No account or API access required.

The data is extracted directly from Techmeme's server-rendered HTML, ensuring accurate, up-to-the-minute coverage of what the tech world is talking about.

Coverage: AI, cloud computing, big tech, startups, cybersecurity, policy, earnings reports, product launches, layoffs, acquisitions - everything Techmeme's editors curate from 200+ tech publications worldwide.

Target Audience / Use Cases

Who	What they build
Journalists / researchers	Daily tech news monitoring pipelines
Investors	Real-time market signal extraction from tech press
AI / ML teams	Training data for news summarization and classification
Media analysts	Source and coverage trend analysis
Product managers	Competitive intelligence feeds
Newsletter creators	Automated content curation and briefings

📋 What the Techmeme Scraper does

• Fetches the live Techmeme homepage (updated continuously throughout the day)
• Extracts every curated story cluster: headline, source publication, summary excerpt
• Captures the full related-coverage cluster for each story (multiple publications covering the same event)
• Records the publication date of each story
• Collects thumbnail images where available
• Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML with one click
• Works without login or API key

💡 Why it matters: Techmeme aggregates thousands of tech articles daily down to ~20 curated story clusters - the signal in a sea of noise. Automating this feed gives you a structured, machine-readable version of the most important tech stories of the day, with source metadata and full related-coverage context that no other single feed provides.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: imageUrl, publishedAt, relatedLinks, results, scrapedAt, source, sourceName, 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. Click Try for free on the Techmeme Scraper page
2. Set maxItems to how many stories you want (default 10, up to 1,000,000 for paid users)
3. Click Start and wait a few seconds
4. Download your dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML

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This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Techmeme or Gabe Rivera. It scrapes only publicly available information from the Techmeme homepage. Use responsibly and in accordance with Techmeme's terms of service.

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