# Bloomberg Articles Scraper (`scrapyx/bloomberg-articles-scraper`) Actor

Fetches full Bloomberg news articles from a list of URLs -- headline, byline, full body text, publish/update dates, topics, tags and lead image. No account or browser required.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapyx/bloomberg-articles-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ibnu Adzim](https://apify.com/scrapyx) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $8.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## 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

```json
{
  "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):

```json
{
  "_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:

```json
{
  "_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.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Bloomberg article URLs to fetch. Each becomes its own record -- an ARTICLE row on success, or an ERROR row naming why it failed.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

How many attempts each URL gets before it is reported as failed. Each attempt rotates to the next entry in this actor's verified profile pool.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Upper bound on URLs fetched in flight at once.

## `minRequestInterval` (type: `number`):

Shared pacing floor across all requests this run makes, independent of 'Max concurrent requests'.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Optional. This actor reaches Bloomberg directly and does not need a proxy to run -- only enable this if you want extra IP diversity across a very large batch of URLs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "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
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `items` (type: `string`):

One row per scraped record. See the dataset's default view for field definitions.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapyx/bloomberg-articles-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": ["https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapyx/bloomberg-articles-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-09/stock-market-today-dow-s-p-live-updates"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapyx/bloomberg-articles-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapyx/bloomberg-articles-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/ZPl64EU8rhg1eJJf6/builds/7a0tYyIWMRRgbERLG/openapi.json