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/9f8d01dd-4ef8-475e-8b76-9cb0e325fb60",
  "source": "Financial Times",
  "title": "Keir Starmer set for vetting showdown with ‘heartbroken’ Olly Robbins ",
  "description": "PM will address House of Commons amid dispute over whether officials should have shared details of Peter Mandelson’s security checks",
  "content": "Sir Keir Starmer will on Monday go into political battle with a “heartbroken” Sir Olly Robbins, whom he sacked as head of the Foreign Office, amid warnings that the confrontation has plunged the civil service into crisis. Starmer will seek to fend off calls for him to quit by insisting that Robbins repeatedly kept him in the dark over red flags raised over the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as UK ambassador to the US....",
  "published_date": "2026-04-20T09:03:15.892Z",
  "modified_date": "2026-04-20T09:13:20.000Z",
  "authors": [
    "Jim Pickard",
    "George Parker"
  ]
}

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)

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nytimes-scraper	New York Times
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All actors support mode: "latest" for fetching newest article URLs from each source.