Nikkei Asia Article Scraper

Extract full article text, headline, authors, dates and metadata from any asia.nikkei.com article URL. Nikkei Asia is the English-language sister of Japan's leading business newspaper, covering Asia-Pacific business, politics, technology, and finance.

Why Use This Actor?

• Asia-Pacific business intelligence — Nikkei Asia is the canonical English source for Japanese, Chinese, and ASEAN corporate news.
• FT-quality reporting — owned by Nikkei Inc. (also the parent of the Financial Times), with the same editorial standards.
• Live coverage support — handles Spotlight live blogs (e.g. the Trump-Xi summit) as cleanly as standard articles.
• Free tier coverage — most articles return full body via HTTP-only extraction; premium articles fall back to intro with a warning.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests — no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Article body lives in <div class="ezrichtext-field articleBody"> and is extracted directly with a paragraph filter that strips ads, share blocks, and related-stories noise.

Input

{
  "url": "https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/trump-xi-summit/example-article",
  "urls": [
    "https://asia.nikkei.com/article/one",
    "https://asia.nikkei.com/article/two"
  ],
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/trump-xi-summit/trump-xi-summit-live-us-president-discusses-outcomes-aboard-air-force-one",
  "source": "Nikkei Asia",
  "title": "Trump-Xi summit live: US president discusses outcomes aboard Air Force One",
  "description": "Trump's day-long visit to Beijing brought few concrete deals but de-escalated tensions.",
  "content": "Aboard Air Force One on Friday, US President Donald Trump reflected on his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing the previous day...",
  "image": "https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/...",
  "language": "en_GB",
  "word_count": 4868,
  "published_date": "2026-05-15T12:29:10.000Z",
  "modified_date": "",
  "authors": ["Staff Writer"],
  "categories": "Spotlight",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output — array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/example-newest-article",
    "title": "US stocks fall after Trump-Xi summit leaves investors 'underwhelmed'",
    "published_date": "Fri, 15 May 2026 12:29:10 GMT",
    "source": "Nikkei Asia"
  }
]

Source: https://asia.nikkei.com/rss/feed/nar (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

• Free articles return the full body; premium articles return the intro paragraphs with warning: "Nikkei Asia paywall - only intro available".
• Works on regular articles AND /spotlight/* live blogs.

Scope & Compliance

• Public content only. This actor requests pages the same way an ordinary anonymous visitor's browser does. It uses no login, no subscriber credentials, no cookies from a paid account, and does not attempt to obtain content the publisher withholds from anonymous visitors.
• Subscriber-only material is not retrieved. Where the publisher serves only a headline, summary or intro to anonymous visitors, that is what the actor returns — and it flags the result so your pipeline can tell the difference.
• No security control is defeated. The actor sends ordinary HTTPS requests with a browser-accurate TLS fingerprint so it does not need a browser engine. It solves no CAPTCHAs and forges no authentication.
• Copyright stays with the publisher. Output is intended for research, monitoring, archiving and analysis. You are responsible for using it in line with the publisher's Terms of Service, copyright law and any applicable data-protection rules — republishing article text is generally not permitted.
• Rate limits are respected. Requests are paced and retried politely; the actor is not designed for denial-of-service-scale traffic.