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/2026/04/19/openais-existential-questions/",
  "source": "TechCrunch",
  "title": "OpenAI’s existential questions",
  "content": "OpenAI has been all over the news recently, whether that news is aboutacquisitions,competition with Anthropic, orbigger debates about AI’s impact on society.

On the latest episode ofTechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and I did our best to round up all the latest OpenAI news. While the company’s latest acquisitions seem to be classic acqui-hires, Sean suggested they also address “two big existential problems that OpenAI is...",
  "published_date": "2026-04-19T14:24:06",
  "modified_date": "2026-04-19T14:24:14",
  "description": "On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI’s latest acquisitions and whether they address “two big existential problems” for the company."
}

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)

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

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fortune-scraper	Fortune
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msn-scraper	MSN News
nytimes-scraper	New York Times
reuters-scraper	Reuters
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All actors support mode: "latest" for fetching newest article URLs from each source.