EU-Startups.com Scraper

What does EU-Startups.com Scraper do?

EU-Startups.com Scraper extracts public startup news articles from EU-Startups.com — Europe's leading startup magazine covering funding rounds, interviews, acquisitions, and ecosystem news. Paste a category page, homepage, author page, or single article URL and export structured headlines with author, date, categories, featured image, and optional full body text as JSON, CSV, or Excel. No login.

What can this EU-Startups scraper do?

• Category and list pages — Scrape funding, country, acquisition, and topic archives with automatic pagination.
• Full article text — By default visits each article page and exports body text, tags, and excerpts.
• Headline-only mode — Disable includeFullContent for faster list scraping without article body.
• Structured fields — Title, author, publish date, categories, tags, excerpt, image URL, and source list URL.
• Apify platform — Schedule daily news pulls, export JSON/CSV/Excel, call the Actor via API, or connect n8n, Make, and Zapier.

Why scrape EU startup news?

Use cases for European startup news and EU-Startups.com data:

1. Funding round monitoring — Track new seed, Series A, and growth rounds across Europe in one feed.
2. VC and angel research — See which startups raise capital and which sectors heat up each week.
3. M&A and acquisition alerts — Follow the acquisitions category for buyouts and strategic exits.
4. Country ecosystem snapshots — Pull Germany, France, Nordics, or CEE startup headlines for market maps.
5. Media and newsletter curation — Automate a weekly EU startup digest with title, author, and image.
6. Competitive intelligence — Watch competitors, partners, and adjacent startups mentioned in the press.
7. Sales and BD prospecting — Find recently funded companies for outbound timing and account research.
8. Content marketing research — Study headlines, topics, and authors that perform in the EU startup press.
9. NLP and RAG datasets — Export full article text for summarization, classification, or embeddings.
10. PR and comms monitoring — Capture interviews, founder profiles, and ecosystem trend pieces.
11. Event and accelerator tracking — Follow launches, demo days, and program announcements.
12. Historical news archives — Build a structured corpus of European startup stories over time.

What data can you extract from EU-Startups.com?

Field	Description
id	Stable article slug from the URL.
title	Article headline.
url	Absolute article URL on EU-Startups.com.
publishedAt	Publication date (ISO 8601).
modifiedAt	Last modified date when available.
authorName	Author display name.
authorUrl	Author profile URL.
excerpt	Meta description or article summary.
bodyText	Full article text from the page body (includeFullContent).
categories	Category labels (e.g. Funding, Germany Startups).
tags	Article tags when present.
imageUrl	Featured image URL.
sourceUrl	List page URL where the article was discovered.
scrapedAt	UTC timestamp when the record was saved.

You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Actor run.

How to scrape EU-Startups.com articles

1. Open EU-Startups.com Scraper in Apify Console.
2. Add Start URLs — category pages, the homepage, or individual article URLs.
3. Set Maximum items per start URL (default 5 is a cheap test).
4. Leave Include full article content on (default) to export article body text, tags, and excerpts.
5. Enable Apify Proxy with residential IPs (recommended — EU-Startups.com uses Cloudflare).
6. Click Start and download results from the dataset tab.

Example start URLs:

• Funding: https://www.eu-startups.com/category/fundin/
• Germany: https://www.eu-startups.com/category/germany-startups/
• Acquisitions: https://www.eu-startups.com/category/acquisitions/
• France: https://www.eu-startups.com/category/france-startups/

How much does it cost to scrape EU-Startups.com?

This Actor uses pay-per-event pricing plus platform usage billing. You pay a small maintenance fee per saved article and standard Apify compute/proxy usage (residential proxy is recommended). The free plan is enough for a short test run. Exact Store prices are on the Actor's Pricing tab.

Keep maxItems at 3–5 while you try the Actor. List mode is faster and cheaper than full-content mode because it visits fewer pages.

Input

See the Input tab. Main fields:

• Start URLs — Category pages, homepage, author/tag pages, or article URLs
• Maximum items — Cap per start URL
• Include full article content — Visit each article for body text, tags, and excerpts
• Proxy configuration — Residential Apify Proxy recommended (DE prefill)

Output example

{
  "id": "stockholms-spiich-raises-e3-million-to-let-ai-handle-admin-work-while-sales-teams-focus-on-customers",
  "title": "Stockholm's Spiich raises €3 million to let AI handle admin work while sales teams focus on customers",
  "url": "https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/stockholms-spiich-raises-e3-million-to-let-ai-handle-admin-work-while-sales-teams-focus-on-customers/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-23T10:26:49+02:00",
  "authorName": "Rahul Raj",
  "categories": ["Sweden Startups"],
  "imageUrl": "https://www.eu-startups.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Spiich.jpg",
  "bodyText": "Spiich, a Stockholm-based AI sales agent startup, has raised a €3 million Seed round..."
}

Tips

• Full content is on by default — every article includes bodyText unless you disable it.
• Use headline-only mode (includeFullContent: false) when you only need titles and metadata.
• maxItems applies per start URL — combine several categories in one run.
• Schedule a daily run on the funding category to catch new rounds overnight.

FAQ

Do I need a login or API key?

No. Only public EU-Startups.com pages are scraped.

Why is a residential proxy recommended?

EU-Startups.com is protected by Cloudflare. Residential Apify Proxy helps the browser session pass bot checks reliably.

Can I scrape a single article?

Yes. Paste a full article URL (for example https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/09/.../) into Start URLs.

Support

If EU-Startups.com changes its layout or you need additional public fields, open an issue on the Actor page.

Image Credit

Image credit: EU-Startups.com