New York Times Scraper — Full Articles, Headlines & Archives

Extract full article text, headlines, authors, dates, images, and categories from the New York Times. Covers all NYT sections including The Athletic, opinion, briefings, and 24+ topic feeds.

Why use this scraper?

• Full article content — not just headlines or snippets. Extracts the complete article body text, typically 300–2,000 words per article.
• All sections supported — news, politics, business, technology, sports, opinion, The Athletic, arts, travel, food, and 15+ more.
• Two modes — scrape specific article URLs, or fetch the latest articles from any section.
• Fast — processes 180+ articles per minute with concurrent extraction.
• Structured output — clean JSON with 13 fields per article. Export to JSON, CSV, Excel, or connect via API.

Modes

Article Mode (default)

Paste one or more NYTimes article URLs. The scraper extracts the full text and metadata from each.

Input example:

{
  "mode": "article",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/business/economy/imf-world-economy-inflation.html",
    "https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7428802/2026/07/07/argentina-world-cup/"
  ]
}

Latest Mode

Fetch the most recent articles from any NYT section feed. Enable extractContent to also get the full article text (otherwise returns headlines and metadata only).

Input example:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "section": "technology",
  "limit": 25,
  "extractContent": true
}

Available sections: homepage, world, us, politics, nyregion, business, technology, science, health, sports, arts, books, movies, theater, travel, style, food, opinion, sundayreview, realestate, magazine, education, media, obituaries, jobs.

Input Parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	"article"	"article" — scrape specific URLs. "latest" — fetch recent articles from an RSS section.
urls	string[]	[]	NYTimes article URLs to scrape (article mode). Supports regular articles, The Athletic, briefings, opinion, and more.
section	string	"homepage"	Which NYT section to fetch in latest mode. See list above.
limit	integer	25	Max number of articles to return in latest mode (1–100).
extractContent	boolean	false	In latest mode, also fetch each article's full text. Without this, you get headlines + metadata only.

Output Fields

Each result includes:

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Article URL
source	string	Always "New York Times"
title	string	Article headline
description	string	Article summary
content	string	Full article body text
image	string	Featured image URL
language	string	Language code ("en")
word_count	integer	Number of words in the article
published_date	string	Publication timestamp (ISO 8601)
modified_date	string	Last modified timestamp
authors	string[]	List of author names
categories	string	Section/topic (e.g., "Business", "Technology")
tags	string	Associated keywords

Example output:

{
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/business/economy/imf-world-economy-inflation.html",
  "source": "New York Times",
  "title": "Global Economic Output Looks Slower for 2026, IMF Says",
  "description": "The I.M.F. projected world output growth would fall to 3 percent...",
  "content": "The global economy is set to slow sharply in 2026 after the war with Iran disrupted energy supply chains...",
  "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/07/08/multimedia/08dc-globalecon-hjcg.jpg",
  "language": "en",
  "word_count": 624,
  "published_date": "2026-07-08T13:00:12.000Z",
  "modified_date": "2026-07-08T15:30:00.000Z",
  "authors": ["Alan Rappeport"],
  "categories": "Business",
  "tags": ""
}

Use Cases

• News monitoring — track NYT coverage of your industry, company, or topic.
• Media research — analyze article length, authorship patterns, publication frequency.
• Content aggregation — build news feeds, newsletters, or dashboards with NYT data.
• Sentiment analysis — feed article text into NLP pipelines for tone and topic analysis.
• Academic research — collect articles for journalism studies, political science, economics research.
• SEO & PR monitoring — track when your brand or competitors are mentioned.

Performance

• Speed: 180+ articles per minute (concurrent extraction).
• Success rate: 99%+ on standard NYT article URLs.
• Memory: 512 MB (no browser required).
• Supported content: Regular articles, The Athletic, opinion pieces, briefings, podcasts (transcript/description).

Integration

Use via the Apify API, JavaScript/Python client, CLI, or connect to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, Slack, and other integrations. Schedule runs to automatically collect new articles on a recurring basis.

Pricing

This actor is pay-per-result. You are charged for each article extracted. Free users get 10 articles per run. See the Pricing tab for details.