Al Jazeera Article Scraper

Extract full article text, headline, description, and metadata from any aljazeera.com and aljazeera.net article URL. Al Jazeera offers independent international news coverage with a strong focus on the Middle East, Africa, and the Global South - perspectives often underrepresented in Western outlets.

Why Use This Actor?

• Geopolitical research - Al Jazeera provides unique perspectives on MENA, Africa, and Asia Pacific stories not found in Western outlets.
• Comparative media analysis - benchmark Al Jazeera framing against Western outlets on the same events.
• Conflict coverage - one of the most detailed English-language sources for Middle East and humanitarian crises.
• Diverse training data - covers topics and regions underrepresented in most English-language corpora.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests - no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Articles are extracted in seconds with RAM usage well under 256 MB.

Input

{
  "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/example-article",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/13/article-one",
    "https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/12/article-two"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/15/uae-to-accelerate-oil-pipeline-project-to-bypass-hormuz?traffic_source=rss",
  "source": "Al Jazeera",
  "title": "UAE to accelerate oil pipeline project to bypass Strait of Hormuz",
  "description": "The Crown Prince of the UAE says the project would help 'meet global demands'.",
  "content": "The United Arab Emirates is fast-tracking the construction of a new pipeline which will double the export capacity through Fujairah, a port city in the country’s east, as Gulf nations seek to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed announced the acceleration of the West-East Pipeline project to “meet global demands”, at an executive meeting held by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) on Friday....",
  "image": "https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-04-14T061611Z_70360149_RC2ROKA26L1X_RTRMADP_3_CHINA-EMIRATES-1778857051.jpg?resize=1920%2C1440",
  "language": "en",
  "word_count": 452,
  "published_date": "",
  "modified_date": "",
  "authors": [],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

Set mode to "latest" to fetch the newest article URLs and titles from Al Jazeera instead of extracting a single article.

Input:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "limit": 10
}

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/iran-war-what-is-happening-on-day-52-of-the-us-israeli-conflict?traffic_source=rss",
    "title": "Iran war: What is happening on day 52 of US-Israeli attacks?",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:21:14 +0000",
    "source": "Al Jazeera"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/xml/rss/all.xml (RSS feed)

Cron Schedule: Auto-Fetch Newest Articles

Combine mode: "latest" and mode: "article" to keep a fresh feed running on autopilot:

1. Schedule a recurring run of this Actor with {"mode": "latest", "limit": 20} via Apify Schedules (UI ▸ Schedules ▸ Create new). A cron expression like */30 * * * * runs it every 30 minutes.
2. Webhook the dataset of the latest run into another Actor run with mode: "article" and the new URLs as input — Apify integrations let you chain runs via the "Actor finished" webhook without any glue code.
3. The article-mode run extracts the full body, image, authors, and metadata for each URL and appends to your master dataset.

Common cron expressions:

Frequency	Cron
Every 15 minutes	*/15 * * * *
Hourly	0 * * * *
Every 6 hours	0 */6 * * *
Daily at 06:00 UTC	0 6 * * *

Notes

• RSS feed links (with ?traffic_source=rss) are supported - the actor strips the query parameter automatically
• Al Jazeera Arabic (aljazeera.net) is a separate site and supported by this actor

Other News Actors

Need a different news source? All actors in this collection:

Actor	Source
aljazeera-scraper	Al Jazeera
apnews-scraper	AP News
bbc-scraper	BBC News
cnbc-scraper	CNBC
forbes-scraper	Forbes
fortune-scraper	Fortune
ft-scraper	Financial Times
guardian-scraper	The Guardian
msn-scraper	MSN News
nytimes-scraper	New York Times
reuters-scraper	Reuters
scmp-scraper	South China Morning Post
techcrunch-scraper	TechCrunch
upi-scraper	UPI
yahoo-finance-scraper	Yahoo Finance
smart-news-loader	Any URL - adaptive HTTP loader
bloomberg-scraper	Bloomberg

All actors support mode: "latest" for fetching newest article URLs from each source.