Blockworks Scraper

Extract structured data from Blockworks.co — the leading institutional crypto and digital assets media platform. Collect breaking news articles, podcast episodes from all 9 shows, and newsletter archives in a single automated run.

🔍 What does Blockworks Scraper do?

Blockworks is the go-to source for institutional crypto intelligence, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, macro markets, and digital asset regulation. This Actor gives you programmatic access to everything Blockworks publishes:

• News articles — titles, authors, publish dates, excerpts, full content, categories, tags, and featured images
• Podcast episodes — all 9 shows including Empire, 0xResearch, Bell Curve, The Breakdown, Forward Guidance, Supply Shock, Lightspeed, 1000x, and Inflection Point
• Newsletters — titles, publish dates, URLs, and excerpts from the Blockworks newsletter archive

All results are saved to an Apify Dataset and can be exported as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

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🚀 Getting started

1. Click Try for free or Start for free above
2. Configure your input (or leave defaults to scrape everything)
3. Hit Start — results appear in the Output tab as they're collected
4. Export your data in any format from the Storage tab

No coding required.

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📥 Input parameters

Field	Type	Default	Description
contentTypes	Array	["news", "podcasts", "newsletters"]	Which content types to scrape. Select any combination.
maxArticles	Integer	100	Maximum number of news articles to return.
maxEpisodesPerShow	Integer	50	Maximum podcast episodes per show.
dateFrom	String	(none)	Only return content published on or after this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD
dateTo	String	(none)	Only return content published on or before this date. Format: YYYY-MM-DD
categories	Array	(all)	Filter news articles by category (e.g. Bitcoin, DeFi, Ethereum, Regulation, Macro). Leave empty for all categories.
podcastShows	Array	(all)	Filter to specific podcast shows by slug. Options: empire, 0xresearch, bellcurve, thebreakdown, forwardguidance, supplyshock, lightspeed, 1000x, inflectionpoint

Example input

{
  "contentTypes": ["news", "podcasts"],
  "maxArticles": 50,
  "maxEpisodesPerShow": 10,
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "categories": ["Bitcoin", "DeFi"],
  "podcastShows": ["empire", "0xresearch"]
}

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📤 Output format

All results are stored in a single dataset with a contentType field so you can easily filter downstream.

News article

{
  "contentType": "article",
  "url": "https://blockworks.co/news/bitcoin-etf-record-inflows",
  "slug": "bitcoin-etf-record-inflows",
  "title": "Bitcoin ETFs See Record $1.2B Inflows as Institutional Demand Surges",
  "author": "Jason Yanowitz",
  "authorUrl": "https://blockworks.co/author/jason-yanowitz",
  "publishedAt": "2025-03-15T14:30:00.000Z",
  "modifiedAt": "2025-03-15T16:00:00.000Z",
  "excerpt": "Spot bitcoin ETFs recorded their largest single-day inflow since launch...",
  "content": "Full article text...",
  "categories": ["Bitcoin", "ETFs"],
  "tags": ["BlackRock", "Fidelity", "institutional"],
  "featuredImageUrl": "https://blockworks.co/wp-content/uploads/...",
  "source": "blockworks.co",
  "scrapedVia": "google-news-rss"
}

Podcast episode

{
  "contentType": "podcast-episode",
  "showName": "Empire",
  "showSlug": "empire",
  "showUrl": "https://blockworks.co/podcast/empire",
  "episodeTitle": "Why Solana is Winning the Developer War",
  "episodeNumber": "342",
  "season": null,
  "description": "Jason and Santi sit down with Anatoly Yakovenko to discuss...",
  "publishedAt": "2025-03-10T08:00:00.000Z",
  "duration": "01:12:45",
  "audioUrl": "https://feeds.simplecast.com/...",
  "audioType": "audio/mpeg",
  "episodeUrl": "https://blockworks.co/podcast/empire/...",
  "imageUrl": "https://...",
  "explicit": "no",
  "source": "blockworks.co",
  "scrapedVia": "rss"
}

Newsletter

{
  "contentType": "newsletter",
  "title": "The Daily: Fed Signals Pause, BTC Holds $70K",
  "publishedAt": "2025-03-14T09:00:00.000Z",
  "url": "https://blockworks.co/newsletter/...",
  "excerpt": "Good morning. Here's what you need to know today...",
  "source": "blockworks.co",
  "scrapedVia": "html"
}

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🎯 Use cases

Crypto research & analysis Monitor Blockworks for breaking news, track narrative shifts across articles and podcasts, and build a real-time feed of institutional crypto sentiment.

Competitive intelligence Track what topics Blockworks covers most, which guests appear on podcasts, and how coverage of specific assets evolves over time.

Content aggregation Build crypto news dashboards, Slack/Discord bots, or newsletter digests powered by Blockworks content.

AI & machine learning Create training datasets for crypto-specific LLMs, sentiment analysis models, or topic classification systems using real institutional media content.

Academic research Study media framing of digital assets, track how crypto narratives develop, or analyze the relationship between Blockworks coverage and market movements.

Due diligence Quickly aggregate all Blockworks coverage of a specific project, protocol, or company for investment research.

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🎙️ Podcast shows covered

Show	Slug	Description
Empire	empire	Interviews with top crypto founders — the real stories behind the headlines
0xResearch	0xresearch	Deep dives into protocol research, DeFi, and onchain analytics
Bell Curve	bellcurve	Macro and market structure debates from leading traders and analysts
The Breakdown	thebreakdown	Daily macro and crypto market analysis
Forward Guidance	forwardguidance	Institutional macro perspective on digital assets
Supply Shock	supplyshock	Bitcoin-focused show covering adoption, mining, and macro
Lightspeed	lightspeed	Solana ecosystem news and analysis
1000x	1000x	Crypto markets and trading with professional traders
Inflection Point	inflectionpoint	Big-picture conversations about the future of finance

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⚙️ Technical notes

Scraping strategy

The Actor uses a multi-strategy approach for maximum reliability:

1. Google News RSS (primary for news) — fast, always accessible, no proxy needed
2. Direct RSS feeds — used for podcast episodes via hosting platform feeds
3. Playwright browser — JavaScript-rendered page fallback

Proxy

News articles are collected via Google News RSS and require no proxy. Podcast episode discovery and newsletter scraping use Playwright and may benefit from Apify's residential proxies for best results. The Actor is pre-configured to use Apify Proxy automatically.

Rate limits

This Actor is designed to be respectful of rate limits and adds delays between requests. For large scrapes (10,000+ articles), consider scheduling runs over multiple days.

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💡 Tips

• Date filtering is the most powerful input for targeted research. Combine dateFrom and dateTo to pull a specific time window.
• Category filtering on news (e.g. "categories": ["DeFi"]) narrows results significantly and speeds up runs.
• Podcast-only runs are fast and cheap — set "contentTypes": ["podcasts"] and you'll get episode metadata for all 9 shows in seconds.
• Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor daily and keep a continuously updated dataset of Blockworks content.

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🔄 Integrations

Connect this Actor's output directly to:

• Google Sheets via the Apify Google Sheets integration
• Zapier / Make for workflow automation
• Slack / Discord for real-time news alerts
• Airtable for research databases
• Any REST API via the Apify HTTP integration

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📊 Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing:

• $0.50 per Actor start
• $0.001 per result (article, episode, or newsletter)

A typical run scraping 100 articles + 450 podcast episodes = ~$1.05 in Actor fees, plus standard Apify platform compute costs.

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🐛 Issues & feedback

Found a bug or have a feature request? Use the Issues tab above to report it. Response time is typically within 48 hours.

Common issues:

• 0 results for newsletters — Blockworks' newsletter archive URL structure changes periodically. Try running with "contentTypes": ["news", "podcasts"] in the meantime.
• Missing podcast episodes — Some shows may have updated their RSS feed URL. Open an issue and it'll be patched within 48 hours.

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This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Blockworks Group Inc. It is an independent tool for accessing publicly available content.