# The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper - Tech News (`parseforge/theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper`) Actor

Hunt down the latest stories from Theverge Techcrunch Wired Rss with headline, author, publication date, topic tags, summary and full body content. Trusted by media monitoring, PR teams, brand watchers and competitive intelligence. Run on demand or on a recurring schedule and feed every row into.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** News, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

Pay per usage

This Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-usage

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 📰 The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper

> 🚀 **Get The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS in seconds.** Production-ready, real-time data with no manual scraping.

> 🕒 **Last updated** 2026-05-27 · **📊 9 fields** per record · **Real-time data** · **Public source**

The The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper exports structured records directly from the public upstream source. No API keys, no logins, no manual exports. Every record is normalized and ready for access in a clean dataset.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Data analysts | Build dashboards, monitor changes |
| Compliance teams | Risk screening and audit trails |
| Journalists | Investigative research and reporting |
| Developers | Pipe data into apps via Apify API |

### 📋 What this Scraper does

- Connects to the official public source in real time
- Returns clean, deduplicated records
- Auto-paginates through the upstream API or HTML feed
- Normalizes dates, identifiers and codes
- Outputs every record with a `scrapedAt` ISO timestamp
- Supports up to 1,000,000 items per run for paid users

> 💡 **Why it matters:** save engineering hours, get a clean dataset in one run.

### 🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

### ⚙️ Input

````

{
"maxItems": 10,
"sources": \[
"theverge",
"techcrunch",
"wired"
]
}

````

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** free-plan runs are capped at 10 items as a preview. Upgrade to a paid plan to unlock up to 1,000,000 records.

### 📊 Output

| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| `source` | text |
| `title` | text |
| `url` | text |
| `author` | text |
| `publishedAt` | text |
| `updatedAt` | text |
| `summary` | text |
| `categories` | text |
| `scrapedAt` | text |
| `error` | text (or null) |

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

- 100% public data, no auth required
- Standardized field naming across all ParseForge actors
- Real-time, no cached output
- Pay-per-event pricing - pay only for actual records returned

### 📈 How it compares to alternatives

| Alternative | Caveat |
|---|---|
| Manual Get | Slow, error-prone |
| Build-your-own scraper | Maintenance burden |
| **The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper** | One-click, always up to date |

### 🚀 How to use

1. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp)
2. Open the The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper
3. Fill the input (or use the prefill)
4. Click **Start**
5. access the dataset in a clean dataset

### 💼 Business use cases

#### Competitive intelligence
Monitor changes to the upstream source on a daily schedule.

#### Research & journalism
Investigate trends with a structured dataset.

#### Compliance & due diligence
Use the output to feed risk-screening pipelines.

#### Marketing & enrichment
Enhance your CRM with up-to-date public records.

### 🔌 Automating The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper

Trigger runs from Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, AWS Lambda or any HTTP client through the Apify API.

### 🌟 Beyond business use cases

#### Research
Academic studies on the upstream domain.

#### Personal projects
Build a personal dashboard or alert system.

#### Non-profit
Civic-tech, transparency and watchdog initiatives.

#### Experimentation
Train ML models on real-world data.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste the input/output schema into ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity to design your downstream pipeline.

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

**Q: Do I need an account on the upstream source?**
A: No. The data is publicly available.

**Q: How fresh is the data?**
A: Pulled at run time, so always current.

**Q: Can I filter the output?**
A: Yes - see the Input section.

**Q: What output is the output?**
A: data, RSS or via API.

**Q: Is this affiliated with the source?**
A: No. Independent tool.

**Q: How many records can I extract?**
A: Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000.

**Q: Does it support pagination?**
A: Yes, fully automated.

**Q: How is pricing handled?**
A: Pay-per-event - only for records returned.

**Q: Can I schedule recurring runs?**
A: Yes, via Apify Schedules.

**Q: Does it work with webhooks?**
A: Yes, Apify supports webhooks on run completion.

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

Make, Zapier, n8n, Airbyte, Slack, Discord, Google Sheets, Airtable, Notion, HubSpot, Salesforce, AWS, GCP, Azure, GitHub, Webhooks, REST API, MCP.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

| Actor | What it does |
|---|---|
| [OurAirports Global Airport Database Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/ourairports-scraper) | Every airport worldwide |
| [openFDA Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/openfda-scraper) | US FDA adverse events |
| [SEC EDGAR Scraper](https://apify.com/parseforge/sec-edgar-scraper) | US public-company filings |

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge).

**🆘 Need Help?** [Open our contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA)

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** independent tool, not affiliated with the upstream source. Only publicly available data is collected.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000
## `sources` (type: `array`):

Which RSS feeds to scrape.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "sources": [
    "theverge",
    "techcrunch",
    "wired"
  ]
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "sources": [
        "theverge",
        "techcrunch",
        "wired"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "sources": [
        "theverge",
        "techcrunch",
        "wired",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "sources": [
    "theverge",
    "techcrunch",
    "wired"
  ]
}' |
apify call parseforge/theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "The Verge, TechCrunch & Wired RSS Scraper - Tech News",
        "description": "Hunt down the latest stories from Theverge Techcrunch Wired Rss with headline, author, publication date, topic tags, summary and full body content. Trusted by media monitoring, PR teams, brand watchers and competitive intelligence. Run on demand or on a recurring schedule and feed every row into.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "9TfIxjwDzdl5tiW6B"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
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                    "required": true,
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                            "schema": {
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                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
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                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
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                "responses": {
                    "200": {
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            "post": {
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        "/acts/parseforge~theverge-techcrunch-wired-rss-scraper/run-sync": {
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                "tags": [
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                "parameters": [
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                        "schema": {
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    "components": {
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                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users: Limited to 10 items (preview). Paid users: Optional, max 1,000,000"
                    },
                    "sources": {
                        "title": "Sources",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Which RSS feeds to scrape.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string",
                            "enum": [
                                "theverge",
                                "techcrunch",
                                "wired"
                            ],
                            "enumTitles": [
                                "The Verge",
                                "TechCrunch",
                                "Wired"
                            ]
                        },
                        "default": [
                            "theverge",
                            "techcrunch",
                            "wired"
                        ]
                    }
                }
            },
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                        "type": "object",
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                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
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                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
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                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
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                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
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                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
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                                "type": "string",
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                                "type": "string"
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                            "usage": {
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                                "properties": {
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                                        "type": "integer",
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}
```