DER STANDARD News Scraper

What does DER STANDARD News Scraper do?

DER STANDARD News Scraper extracts public news articles from derstandard.at — Austria's leading online newspaper. Paste a section URL (for example https://www.derstandard.at/international), an RSS feed, a date archive, or a single story URL and export structured content — headline, author, date, category, excerpt, image, and full article text — without writing any code.

Run it on the Apify platform to schedule crawls, export JSON/CSV/Excel, rotate proxies, monitor failures, and integrate results via API.

What can this DER STANDARD scraper do?

• Section and RSS discovery — Start from International, Wirtschaft, Sport, Inland, or any /rss/{section} feed.
• Full article text — Visits each story page and exports body text, kicker, author, and hero image.
• Headline-only mode — Set includeFullContent to false for fast RSS exports without article pages.
• Date archives — Scrape a specific day's coverage via /section/YYYY/M/D URLs with automatic older-day pagination.
• Structured output — Title, excerpt, content, publish date, category, image URL, and canonical story URL.
• No login required — Public Austrian news only; lightweight HTTP crawler, no browser needed by default.

Why scrape derstandard.at?

Use cases for DER STANDARD and Austrian news data:

1. Austrian media monitoring — Track breaking politics, business, and culture headlines in one feed.
2. PR and communications — Watch how topics evolve across DER STANDARD sections.
3. Research and journalism — Collect article metadata and full text for trend analysis.
4. Content aggregation — Build newsletters or dashboards from International, Wirtschaft, or Sport.
5. Competitive intelligence — Monitor Austrian market and policy stories by section.
6. NLP and RAG datasets — Export full article bodies for summarization or embeddings.
7. Historical news archives — Walk dated archive pages for day-by-day coverage.
8. Cross-border news tracking — Follow international stories relevant to Austria and the EU.
9. Editorial research — Study kickers, bylines, and lead paragraphs across topics.
10. Alerting workflows — Schedule runs and push new headlines to Slack, email, or webhooks.

Related Actor: DER STANDARD Jobs Scraper for jobs.derstandard.at listings.

How to use DER STANDARD News Scraper

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Add one or more derstandard.at section, RSS, archive, or story URLs under Start URLs.
3. Set Maximum items (articles per start URL).
4. Run the Actor and download the results from the Dataset tab.

Input

Field	Description
startUrls	Section, RSS, date archive, or /story/ article URLs on www.derstandard.at.
maxItems	Maximum articles per start URL (default 5).
includeFullContent	When true, visits each story for full body text (default).
proxyConfiguration	Optional proxy; no proxy by default.

Supported start URLs:

• Section pages: https://www.derstandard.at/international, https://www.derstandard.at/wirtschaft
• RSS feeds: https://www.derstandard.at/rss/international
• Date archives: https://www.derstandard.at/international/2026/9/23
• Article pages: https://www.derstandard.at/story/{id}/{slug}

Output

Each result is a structured article object. You can download the dataset in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

{
  "id": "3000000340940",
  "title": "Israels „Kriegsverbrechen“, Trump und Irankrieg: Hitzige Debatten bei UN-Generaldebatte",
  "excerpt": "Israel weist Van der Bellens deutliche Kritik scharf zurück...",
  "content": "Bei einer Pressekonferenz mit Bundeskanzler Christian Stocker...",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-23T08:58:10.085Z",
  "publishedAtText": "23. September 2026, 10:58",
  "author": "Flora Mory",
  "kicker": "New York",
  "category": "international",
  "imageUrl": "https://i.ds.at/.../image.jpg",
  "url": "https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000340940/...",
  "searchUrl": "https://www.derstandard.at/international"
}

What data can you extract from derstandard.at?

Field	Description
id	DER STANDARD story ID
title	Article headline
excerpt	Lead paragraph / subtitle
content	Full article body text
publishedAt	ISO publication timestamp when available
publishedAtText	Human-readable date as shown on page
author	Byline / author name
kicker	Story kicker label (e.g. location or topic tag)
category	Section name derived from the start URL
imageUrl	Primary hero image URL
url	Public article URL
searchUrl	Source section or archive URL for articles found via search

How much does it cost to scrape derstandard.at?

This Actor uses pay-per-event billing on the Article dataset item. Platform usage is included in the event price for typical HTTP runs without proxy.

• FREE tier: about $1.99 per 1,000 articles
• GOLD tier: about $1.49 per 1,000 articles
• Actor start: $0.00005 per run

A test run with 5 articles per section usually finishes in under a minute on the Apify free tier. Larger crawls scale with article count and archive depth.

Tips and advanced options

• Use section URLs like https://www.derstandard.at/international for the latest headlines via RSS.
• Set Include full article text to false for faster headline-only exports from RSS.
• Use date archive URLs to scrape a specific day's coverage.
• Increase maxItems to walk older archive pages when you need more than the latest RSS batch.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

Is scraping derstandard.at legal?
This Actor collects only public news content shown on derstandard.at without login. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws when processing any data.

Which URLs are supported?
Section pages, RSS feeds, dated archive pages under a section, and individual /story/ article URLs on www.derstandard.at.

Need help?
Open an issue on the Actor page or contact the developer through Apify Console.

Image Credit

Image credit: derstandard.at