The Daily Affairs Article Scraper

Turn any list of The Daily Affairs article links into clean, structured data — headline, full plain-text body, summary, author, category, lead image, and an ISO-8601 publish date, one tidy row per article. Paste the URLs, run once, and get a spreadsheet-ready dataset back. Built for media monitors, content teams, and news researchers who need dependable article data from The Daily Affairs without copy-pasting stories by hand.

Why This Scraper?

• 9 structured fields per article, not 5 — headline, full plain-text body, summary, author, category, lead image URL, ISO-8601 publish date, URL slug, plus the source URL echoed back. Comparable scrapers ship a thin five-field row.
• Full article body as clean plain text — the complete story, with formatting stripped and paragraphs joined, ready to drop straight into NLP pipelines, LLM training sets, or a reader — not just a headline and a one-line blurb.
• Purpose-built for India current-affairs — tuned to The Daily Affairs' AI-curated Indian news across politics, business, crime, and world sections.
• Category tag on every row — each article carries its section (politics, business, crime, …) so you can filter, group, and trend by topic with no post-processing.
• ISO-8601 UTC timestamps — every publishedAt is normalized to YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ, so records sort and join cleanly no matter how the source formats dates.
• Lead image URL on every article — the featured image link comes through ready to embed in dashboards, newsletters, or archives.
• Source URL echoed on every record — the exact URL you pasted returns on the row, making joins, dedup, and audits trivial (rival outputs drop it entirely).
• Clean field names, zero noise — consistent, predictable output with no leaked internal bookkeeping IDs, from $5.00 per 1,000 results — roughly 44% below the closest comparable article scraper.

Use Cases

Media Monitoring & PR

• Track how The Daily Affairs covers your brand, executives, or sector across Indian current affairs
• Archive full-text articles by category for stakeholder and press-clipping reports
• Feed new stories into your alerting workflow the moment you collect them

Content Aggregation & Curation

• Pull full article bodies to power topic newsletters or a curated India-news digest
• Build a category-filtered feed (politics, business, crime) for a niche audience
• Repurpose summaries and lead images into social or email content, respecting copyright

Research & Academia

• Assemble full-text corpora of Indian current-affairs reporting for NLP or discourse analysis
• Study how specific events are framed, using clean body text and publish timestamps
• Build longitudinal datasets keyed on category and publication date

AI & LLM Training Data

• Collect clean, plain-text article bodies as fine-tuning or retrieval source material
• Label training sets by topic straight from the category field
• Gather timestamped, deduplicated news text without manual copy-paste

Newsroom & Competitive Intelligence

• Monitor a competitor publisher's output and framing, category by category
• Capture bylines and publish times to map who covers what, and when
• Keep a structured, searchable archive of the stories you care about

Getting Started

Single Article

The minimum input — one article URL:

{
    "articleUrls": [
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/rupee-plummets-amid-adani-scrutiny-offshore-outflows"
    ]
}

Several Articles at Once

Paste as many links as you like, one per line:

{
    "articleUrls": [
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/rupee-plummets-amid-adani-scrutiny-offshore-outflows",
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/monsoon-forecast-above-normal-rainfall",
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/parliament-winter-session-key-bills"
    ]
}

Batch With a Cap

Provide a long list but stop after a set number of articles — perfect for a quick sample:

{
    "articleUrls": [
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/rupee-plummets-amid-adani-scrutiny-offshore-outflows",
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/monsoon-forecast-above-normal-rainfall",
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/parliament-winter-session-key-bills",
        "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/startup-funding-winter-continues"
    ],
    "maxResults": 2
}

Input Reference

Articles

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
articleUrls	array	one example URL	The Daily Affairs article page URLs to collect, one per line (e.g. https://dailyaffairs.org/article/<slug>). Each URL returns exactly one article in the output.

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	0	Maximum number of articles to collect in this run. Set to 0 (or leave empty) for no limit — every URL you provide is collected.

Output

Each record is one article with 9 structured fields, in a single flat row:

{
    "url": "https://dailyaffairs.org/article/rupee-plummets-amid-adani-scrutiny-offshore-outflows",
    "title": "Rupee Plummets Amid Adani Scrutiny and Offshore Outflows",
    "summary": "The Indian rupee slid to a record low against the dollar as renewed scrutiny of the Adani Group and steady foreign outflows weighed on market sentiment.",
    "author": "Priya Nair",
    "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T09:30:00Z",
    "content": "The Indian rupee fell to a fresh record low on Tuesday as pressure mounted on domestic equities.\n\nForeign portfolio investors pulled steadily out of Indian markets through the week.\n\nAnalysts said the central bank was likely to step in to smooth the currency's decline.",
    "category": "business",
    "imageUrl": "https://cdn.dailyaffairs.org/images/rupee-record-low.jpg",
    "slug": "rupee-plummets-amid-adani-scrutiny-offshore-outflows"
}

Fields

Field	Type	Description
url	string	The article URL you provided, echoed back on the record.
title	string	Article headline.
summary	string | null	Short article summary / standfirst.
author	string | null	Byline / author name.
publishedAt	string (ISO 8601) | null	Publication date-time in UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ).
content	string | null	Full article body as clean plain text, paragraphs separated by blank lines.
category	string | null	Article section (e.g. politics, business, crime).
imageUrl	string | null	Lead / featured image URL.
slug	string | null	The article's URL slug identifier.

Tips for Best Results

• Paste many URLs in one run — your whole list is collected together, so a single run with hundreds of links is far faster and cheaper to manage than many one-URL runs.
• Find article URLs from the site's category pages — browse a section on dailyaffairs.org, open the stories you want, and copy each article link from your browser's address bar.
• URLs are forgiving — trailing slashes, query strings, and #fragments are all handled; you can even paste a bare article slug on its own and it still resolves.
• Mix in non-article links safely — homepage, category, and other non-article URLs are skipped with a friendly note, so a rough copy-paste of links won't break the run.
• content is ready to use as-is — the body arrives as clean plain text with paragraphs separated by blank lines, so there's nothing to clean up before analysis.
• Use maxResults to preview quality — set it to a small number to sample field quality on a big list before committing to the full collection.
• Sort by publishedAt for freshness — it's normalized ISO-8601 UTC, ideal for ordering newest-first or filtering to a specific date window.

Pricing

From $5.00 per 1,000 results — roughly 44% below the closest comparable article scraper. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.60	$0.57	$0.53	$0.50
1,000	$6.00	$5.65	$5.30	$5.00
10,000	$60.00	$56.50	$53.00	$50.00
100,000	$600.00	$565.00	$530.00	$500.00

Each successfully collected article counts as one result. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. Platform fees depend on your Apify plan.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate media monitoring, content curation, and research. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and The Daily Affairs' Terms of Service. Respect copyright when redistributing article text, summaries, or images, credit the original publisher, and do not use collected data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.