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Ars Technica Article Crawler

This is an Apify actor that crawls and extracts articles from Ars Technica, a leading technology news and information website. The crawler automatically discovers articles from the homepage and extracts their content in a clean, structured format.

Features

  • Automated Article Discovery: Crawls the Ars Technica homepage to discover article links
  • Content Extraction: Extracts article titles and content in clean Markdown format
  • Anti-Bot Protection: Avoid detection
  • Structured Output: Saves articles with URL, title, and content in JSON format

How It Works

  1. Homepage Crawling: The crawler starts at https://arstechnica.com/ and discovers article links from posts on the homepage. You can also start at other category page like https://arstechnica.com/cars/
  2. Article Extraction: For each discovered article, it extracts:
    • Article URL
    • Page title
    • Article content (converted from HTML to Markdown)
  3. Data Storage: Extracted articles are saved to the Apify dataset in JSON format

Input Configuration

The actor can be configured with custom start URLs through the Actor input. By default, it starts from the Ars Technica homepage.

{
"start_urls": [
{ "url": "https://arstechnica.com/" }
]
}

Output Format

Each scraped article is stored as a JSON object with the following structure:

{
"url": "https://arstechnica.com/path/to/article/",
"title": "Article Title",
"content": "Article content in Markdown format..."
}