UPI Article Scraper

Extract full article text, headline, description, and publication date from any upi.com article URL. United Press International is one of the oldest wire services in the world, providing concise and authoritative reporting on US politics, world news, and top stories.

Why Use This Actor?

• US political news tracking - UPI covers congressional, White House, and state-level politics in depth.
• Wire service aggregation - complement AP and Reuters coverage with UPI independent reporting.
• Historical research - UPI maintains a public archive of decades of news content.
• Concise reporting - UPI wire-style articles are compact and structured, ideal for bulk NLP processing.

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://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/04/13/example/6451776052905/",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/04/13/article-one/1234567890/",
    "https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2026/04/12/article-two/9876543210/"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/05/15/uae-fujairah-oil-pipeline-construction-strait-of-hormuz/3351778860444/",
  "source": "UPI",
  "title": "UAE plans second oil pipeline to bypass Strait of Hormuz - UPI.com",
  "description": "The United Arab Emirates is planning to fast-track construction of a west-east pipeline that would bypass the Strait of Hormuz, opening in 2027.",
  "content": "May 15 (UPI) --The United Arab Emirates is planning to fast-track construction of a west-east pipeline that would bypass the Strait of Hormuz, opening in 2027, officials announced Friday. The pipeline isplanned to doublethe UAE's export capabilities, adding to what is transported through the Habshan-Fujairah pipeline that is already in place.Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyah, said Friday that construction on a second pipeline will accelerate to go online nex...",
  "image": "https://cdnph.upi.com/sv/ph/og/upi_com/3351778860444/2026/1/1d3e5a187da76b0a5ff8ea592001676a/v1.5/UAE-plans-second-oil-pipeline-to-bypass-Strait-of-Hormuz.jpg",
  "language": "en",
  "word_count": 212,
  "published_date": "",
  "modified_date": "",
  "authors": [],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2026/04/20/synagogue-arson-arrests/1701776669549/",
    "title": "Two arrested in London synagogue arson case amid terrorism probe",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 04:53:49 -0400",
    "source": "UPI"
  }
  //...
]

Source: https://rss.upi.com/news/top_news.rss (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

• UPI article URLs follow the pattern /Section/Year/Month/Day/Slug/ID/
• Photo galleries and video pages are not supported; pass text article URLs only

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.