TechCrunch Article Scraper

Extract full article text, headline, author, publication date, and description from any techcrunch.com article URL. TechCrunch is the leading source for startup news, venture capital, and technology industry coverage, with no hard paywall on standard articles.

Why Use This Actor?

• Startup intelligence - monitor funding rounds, product launches, and acquisitions as they break.
• VC and investor research - track which startups are getting attention and which investors are active.
• Tech trend analysis - aggregate TechCrunch coverage to identify emerging technology patterns.
• Event coverage - TechCrunch Disrupt and other major tech events are covered in depth.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests - no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Articles are extracted in seconds with RAM usage well under 256 MB.

Input

{
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/example-article-slug/",
  "urls": [
    "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/article-one/",
    "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/11/article-two/"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/openai-launches-chatgpt-for-personal-finance-will-let-you-connect-bank-accounts/",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "title": "OpenAI launches ChatGPT for personal finance, will let you connect bank accounts",
  "description": "Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.",
  "content": "On Friday, OpenAI launched a new set of personal finance tools in preview for ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the U.S., letting them connect their accounts and ask questions ranging from spending analysis to future financial planning. OpenAI has partnered with the financial connection service Plaid to manage the account connections. Users can connect to over 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, Robinhood, American Express, and Capital One....",
  "image": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-2195918462.jpg",
  "language": "en-US",
  "word_count": 465,
  "published_date": "2026-05-15T09:00:00",
  "modified_date": "2026-05-15T09:36:15",
  "authors": [],
  "categories": "AI",
  "tags": "finance;OpenAI;ChatGPT"
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/openais-existential-questions/",
    "title": "OpenAI’s existential questions",
    "published_date": "Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:24:06 +0000",
    "source": "TechCrunch"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://techcrunch.com/feed/ (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

• TechCrunch uses WordPress REST API, which provides cleaner data than HTML parsing
• Extra fields like modified_date are returned when available via the API

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.