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.