Bloomberg Articles Scraper

Get full Bloomberg news articles — headline, byline, complete body text, dates, section, topics and lead image — from a list of article URLs.

Why use this actor

• No account, login or API key required
• Returns the full article text, not just a headline and a snippet
• Byline, publish and update dates, section, related topics/tags and the lead image, all in one record
• Batch as many URLs as you want in a single run
• Automatic retries on a per-URL basis, so one stubborn page doesn't stall the rest of the batch
• Stable JSON output, ready to drop into a pipeline, database or spreadsheet

How it works

1. You give it a list of Bloomberg article URLs.
2. For each one, it reads the same structured article data Bloomberg's own page uses to render the story — headline, byline, full body text, dates, section, tags and lead image.
3. If a page doesn't carry that full-text data, it falls back to the article's own summary tags, so you still get a usable record instead of nothing.
4. Every URL you send in comes back as exactly one row: a filled-in article, or a short note explaining why that one couldn't be read.

No scrapers, browsers or blocked requests to babysit — point it at URLs and read the output.

Input

{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates"
  ],
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "minRequestInterval": 0.5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
urls	string[]	required	Bloomberg article URLs to fetch
maxRetries	integer	3	Attempts per URL before it's reported as failed
maxConcurrency	integer	3	Upper bound on URLs fetched at once
minRequestInterval	number	0.5	Minimum seconds between request starts, independent of concurrency
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Optional — this actor reaches Bloomberg directly and doesn't need a proxy to run; only useful for extra IP diversity across a very large batch

Output

One row per URL. A successful fetch looks like this (body text and the tag list truncated below for readability — the real output is not):

{
  "_input": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates",
  "_source": "S1-nextdata",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-19T02:28:40Z",
  "recordType": "ARTICLE",
  "id": "TD8VVFKJH6V400",
  "title": "US Stocks Halt Rally at End of Best Week in 2026: Markets Wrap",
  "summary": "Wall Street traders bracing for talks between the US and Iran halted a rally in stocks as oil whipsawed, with the negotiations set to dictate the path ahead for a fragile ceasefire.",
  "byline": "Rita Nazareth",
  "authors": ["Rita Nazareth"],
  "longURL": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates",
  "brand": "markets",
  "published": "2026-04-09T22:23:48.313Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-10T20:23:36.448Z",
  "wordCount": 0,
  "premium": false,
  "type": "article",
  "bodyText": "Wall Street traders bracing for talks between the US and Iran halted a rally in stocks as oil whipsawed, with the negotiations set to dictate the path ahead for a fragile ceasefire.\n\nWhile the S&P 500 saw its best week since November, the gauge lost steam after a seven-day advance. Earlier gains were driven by roughly in-line inflation data. US crude settled below $97, posting its biggest weekly slide since 2020…",
  "topics": [],
  "contentTags": [
    { "id": "stocks", "name": "Stocks", "type": "Topic", "derivedScore": 7.52 },
    { "id": "IR", "name": "Iran", "type": "Country", "derivedScore": 4.66 },
    "… 55 more"
  ],
  "contentLength": 4220
}

A URL that couldn't be read comes back the same shape, with an error note instead of article fields:

{
  "_input": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2000-01-01/this-article-does-not-exist-xyz-abc",
  "_source": "none",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-19T02:26:03Z",
  "recordType": "ERROR",
  "_error": "extraction_failed",
  "_errorDetail": "HTTP 404 (259,084b) via safari2601 carried no recognizable article"
}

Field	Type	Description
title	string	Article headline
summary	string	Article summary / description
byline	string	Byline text
authors	string[]	Author names
bodyText	string	Full article body as plain text
published / updatedAt	string	Publish / last-update time (ISO 8601)
longURL	string	Canonical article URL
brand	string	Bloomberg section (markets, technology, politics, …)
premium	boolean	Whether the article is behind Bloomberg's paywall
wordCount	integer	Word count, when Bloomberg reports one
topics / contentTags	array	Related topics and tags, each with a relevance score
ledeImage	object	Lead image: url, alt, caption, credit (present when the article has one)
contentLength	integer	Character count of bodyText
recordType	string	ARTICLE or ERROR
_source	string	Which data layer on the page produced this record
_error / _errorDetail	string	Present only on a failed URL, explaining why

Notes

• One row per input URL, always — a failure never disappears silently, it comes back as an ERROR row naming the URL and the reason.
• Paywalled articles are still attempted; some return full text, others only the summary and metadata Bloomberg exposes publicly (premium: true on those rows).
• contentTags can run to 50+ entries on a heavily-tagged story — that's real data from Bloomberg's own tagging, not a bug.