Financial Times Article Scraper

Extract article metadata, headline, description, authors, and full article text from ft.com URLs. Bypasses Cloudflare protection without a real browser, with metadata enrichment.

Why Use This Actor?

• Bypasses Cloudflare - accesses FT articles without a real browser or proxy.
• Full article extraction - retrieves complete article text via JSON-LD structured data.
• Financial markets research - FT provides sophisticated analysis of macroeconomics, central banks, and capital markets.
• Business intelligence - track coverage of specific companies, industries, and economic trends.
• Global perspective - FT covers European, Asian, and emerging market financial news alongside US coverage.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests - no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Bypasses Cloudflare protection without a real browser. Articles are extracted in seconds with RAM usage well under 256 MB.

Input

{
  "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/example-uuid",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.ft.com/content/uuid-one",
    "https://www.ft.com/content/uuid-two"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/66933e51-e06d-475c-aed2-f808f9443dea",
  "source": "Financial Times",
  "title": "Donald Trump undecided on Taiwan arms sale after summit with Xi Jinping",
  "description": "US president raises doubts about $14bn weapons package for Taipei after two days of meetings in China",
  "content": "Donald Trump said he had not yet determined whether to approve a $14bn US arms sale to Taipei after a two-day summit with Xi Jinping at which the Chinese president warned him not to “mishandle” the Taiwan issue. Speaking on Air Force One after the conclusion of the visit on Friday, Trump said he had not decided on the arms sale, which has already been authorised by his administration, adding: “I’ll make a determination over the next fairly short period.” The US president said the leaders had dis...",
  "image": "https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fd3927c5d-5105-4959-8281-95f9acc20468.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1",
  "language": "en-GB",
  "word_count": 905,
  "published_date": "2026-05-15T16:08:18.721Z",
  "modified_date": "2026-05-15T16:08:18.000Z",
  "authors": [
    "James Politi",
    "Demetri Sevastopulo",
    "Edward White",
    "Joe Leahy"
  ],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9f8d01dd-4ef8-475e-8b76-9cb0e325fb60",
    "title": "Starmer set for vetting showdown with ‘heartbroken’ Olly Robbins",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:03:15 GMT",
    "source": "Financial Times"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://www.ft.com/?format=rss (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 * * *

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.