AP News Scraper

AP News Scraper

Extract news articles from AP News (Associated Press). Scrape by topic hub or provide direct article URLs. Get lean metadata listings or enriched articles with full body text, authors, tags, and more.

Features

• Topic/Hub Discovery: Scrape any AP News hub page (e.g. /hub/technology, /hub/iran) with automatic pagination
• Direct Article URLs: Provide specific article URLs to scrape directly
• Two Output Modes: Choose between lean listings (fast, metadata only) or enriched articles (full content)
• Rich Article Data: Full body text, authors with bios, tags, section, publish/modified dates, video metadata
• Fast & Lightweight: Uses CheerioCrawler (no browser needed) for maximum speed and low cost

How It Works

1. Provide Hub or Article URLs - Enter one or more AP News hub URLs (e.g. https://apnews.com/hub/technology) or direct article URLs.
2. Choose Output Mode - Enable "Enrich articles" for full article content, or disable it for fast metadata-only listings.
3. Run the Scraper - The scraper discovers articles from hub pages (with pagination) and extracts the data.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
hubUrls	string[]	-	AP News hub URLs to scrape, e.g. https://apnews.com/hub/iran
articleUrls	string[]	-	Specific article URLs to scrape directly
enrichArticles	boolean	true	When enabled, visits each article page for full content. When disabled, outputs lean listings only.
maxPages	integer	5	Max pagination depth per hub URL (~54 articles per page)
maxArticles	integer	100	Maximum total articles to process
proxyConfiguration	object	none	Optional proxy settings. Datacenter proxies are sufficient.

At least one of hubUrls or articleUrls must be provided.

Sample Output Data

Enriched Article (enrichArticles: true)

{
    "type": "article",
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-images-misinformation-russia-israel-9e495017dc5c4bf24a0b6152863dbfb1",
    "title": "Visual misinformation about Iran war fueled by state actors | AP News",
    "description": "A deluge of misrepresented or fabricated videos has spread widely online since the Iran war began...",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Melissa Goldin",
            "url": "https://apnews.com/author/melissa-goldin",
            "email": "mgoldin@ap.org",
            "jobTitle": "News verification reporter",
            "imageUrl": "https://assets.apnews.com/.../profile-melissa-goldin.PNG",
            "bio": "Goldin debunks, analyzes and tracks misinformation for The Associated Press."
        }
    ],
    "publishedDate": "2026-03-07T05:05:11Z",
    "modifiedDate": "2026-03-07T05:05:11Z",
    "section": "World News",
    "tags": ["Artificial intelligence", "Iran war", "Misinformation"],
    "imageUrl": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/39d564b/.../resize/980x653!/quality/90/?url=...",
    "bodyText": "As attacks spread after the bombing of Iran by U.S. and Israeli forces...",
    "bodyParagraphs": 16,
    "wordCount": 809,
    "hasVideo": false,
    "videos": []
}

Lean Listing (enrichArticles: false)

{
    "type": "listing",
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-images-misinformation-russia-israel-9e495017dc5c4bf24a0b6152863dbfb1",
    "title": "State actors are behind much of the visual misinformation about the Iran war",
    "timestamp": "2026-03-07T05:05:11.000Z",
    "timestampMs": 1772859911000,
    "imageUrl": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/c061e4b/.../resize/667x445!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=...",
    "readingTime": null,
    "source": "hub",
    "hubUrl": "https://apnews.com/hub/technology"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses a Pay Per Event pricing model. You only pay for the results you get.

Event	Price	Per 1,000 results	What you get
Enriched article	$0.004	$4.00	Full body text, authors, tags, section, description, images, video metadata
Lean listing	$0.001	$1.00	Title, URL, timestamp, thumbnail
Actor start	$0.00005/GB	-	One-time charge per run based on memory

Cost examples

Scenario	Estimated cost
1 hub, 5 pages, enriched (~270 articles)	~$1.08
1 hub, 5 pages, lean only (~270 articles)	~$0.27
10 direct article URLs, enriched	~$0.04