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/robreischel/2026/05/15/packers-coach-matt-lafleur-calls-schedule-unique/",
  "source": "Forbes",
  "title": "Packers Coach Matt LaFleur Calls Schedule ‘Unique’",
  "description": "",
  "content": "The Green Bay Packers’ 2026 schedule is set. And with three of the first four games on the road, six night contests and four of five at home to end the year,the schedule is a wild one. Green Bay’s eighth-year boss Matt LaFleur, the longest tenured coach in football that hasn't been to a Super Bowl, gave his thoughts on the schedule to Packers.com. Green Bay opens the year at NFC North rival Minnesota....",
  "image": "https://imageio.forbes.com/specials-images/imageserve/67ec26439d2a0791cc1660d0/0x0.jpg?format=jpg&height=900&width=1600&fit=bounds",
  "language": "en",
  "word_count": 514,
  "published_date": "2026-05-15T12:09:44-04:00",
  "modified_date": "",
  "authors": [
    "Rob Reischel"
  ],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

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)

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

• 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
bloomberg-scraper	Bloomberg

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