Forbes Article Scraper

Extract article text, headline, author, publication date, and metadata from forbes.com article URLs. Forbes covers business leadership, entrepreneurship, investing, technology, and the Forbes lists of the world's wealthiest individuals and most valuable companies.

Why Use This Actor?

• Bypasses DataDome - accesses Forbes articles without a real browser or proxy.
• Entrepreneur and startup coverage - Forbes covers early-stage companies, founders, and funding in depth.
• Wealth and ranking research - track the Forbes Billionaires list and industry valuations.
• Investing and personal finance - Forbes Advisor covers retail investor topics including ETFs and real estate.
• Technology leadership - Forbes CIO Network tracks enterprise IT and digital transformation trends.

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.forbes.com/sites/author/2026/04/13/example-article/",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.forbes.com/sites/author/2026/04/13/article-one/",
    "https://www.forbes.com/sites/author/2026/04/12/article-two/"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/04/20/iran-says-blockade-of-its-ports-will-come-at-significant-costs-for-everyone-as-oil-rises/",
  "source": "Forbes",
  "title": "Oil Rises As Iran Warns U.S. Blockade Will Come At ‘Significant Costs’ For All",
  "authors": [
    "Siladitya Ray"
  ],
  "published_date": "2026-04-20T03:49:29-04:00",
  "content": "Iranian officials warned that the U.S. blockade of its ports will come at “significant costs” for the global economy and soaring fuel prices can only be resolved if the blockade ends, as global crude oil prices shot up once again on Monday morning, as both the U.S. and Iran targeted vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz...."
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/04/20/iran-says-blockade-of-its-ports-will-come-at-significant-costs-for-everyone-as-oil-rises/",
    "title": "Iran Says Blockade Of Its Ports Will Come At ‘Significant Costs For Everyone’ As Oil Rises",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:49:29 -0400",
    "source": "Forbes"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://www.forbes.com/business/feed/ (RSS feed)

Notes

• DataDome protection: Forbes uses DataDome bot protection. This actor bypasses it with no proxies required.
• Works on the Apify platform out of the box - no residential proxies needed.
• Full article extraction (content, authors, date) is supported.

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

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