New York Times Article Scraper

Extract full article text, headline, byline, authors, publication date, categories, tags, and metadata from nytimes.com article URLs. Extracts full article text including content behind the metered soft paywall.

Why Use This Actor?

• Bypasses soft paywall - extracts full NYT article text available to web visitors.
• Full article extraction - retrieves complete article text (10,000+ chars) including investigative long-form pieces.
• Rich metadata - extracts authors, published/modified dates, categories, tags, and description.
• Investigative journalism research - NYT investigative pieces are the definitive source for deep US stories.
• Cultural coverage - NYT covers books, film, food, and culture alongside hard news.

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.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/example-article.html",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/politics/article-one.html",
    "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/world/article-two.html"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world/asia/asia-pacific-iran-war-oil.html",
  "source": "New York Times",
  "title": "The Iran War Sent Shock Waves Through Asia That Are Likely to Spread",
  "description": "The Asia-Pacific was hit hard and quick by the war in Iran and its energy bottlenecks. Scenes of crisis there indicate that problems are multiplying and spreading.",
  "published_date": "2026-04-20T05:39:43.000Z",
  "content": "When the war in Iran started on Feb. 28, Asia expected to see serious, gradual impacts from losing access to a huge portion of the world’s oil and gas. But the conflict’s economic and social impacts have hit the region harder and faster than officials and experts expected.

Many countries across the Asia-Pacific are experiencing sudden jolts of disruption that they are struggling to manage, with some comparing the crisis’s breakdowns and scope to..."
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world/asia/asia-pacific-iran-war-oil.html",
    "title": "The Iran War Sent Shock Waves Through Asia That Are Likely to Spread",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:39:43 +0000",
    "source": "New York Times"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml (RSS feed)

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