20 Minutes Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from 20 Minutes (20minutes.fr), France's leading free daily — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required, and no paywall — 20 Minutes is a free, ad-supported newspaper, so full article text is always available
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, byline, section, publish/update dates, and category tags
• Also fetches the newest headlines (with full body HTML included) from a single site-wide feed without visiting each article individually
• Handles both regular articles and live "direct" blog pages (sports, breaking news)
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, or databases
• Automatic retries on temporary network hiccups

How it works

1. Give the actor one or more article URLs, or switch to "latest" mode to get the newest stories automatically.
2. In article mode, the actor opens each URL and pulls out the full text and every publicly available detail about the story.
3. In latest mode, the actor reads the site's front-page feed and returns the newest stories, including full body HTML.
4. Results stream into your dataset, ready to download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

You don't need to manage retries, rate limits, or figure out the site's internal data format — the actor handles all of that.

Input

Article mode (default):

{
  "mode": "article",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/4240413-20260823-presidentielle-2027-raphael-glucksmann-confirme-candidature-scrutin"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Latest headlines mode:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "limit": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	"article" (default) — extract one or more article URLs. "latest" — fetch the newest headlines.
url	string	A single article URL. Used in article mode.
urls	array	Multiple article URLs to extract in one run. Used in article mode.
limit	integer	Max headlines returned in latest mode. Default 10, max 30.
maxConcurrency	integer	How many articles to fetch in parallel in article mode. Default 4.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings. Residential is on by default.

Output

Article mode — one record per URL (truncated here for readability):

{
  "_input": "https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/4240413-20260823-presidentielle-2027-raphael-glucksmann-confirme-candidature-scrutin",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T22:55:10Z",
  "@type": "NewsArticle",
  "headline": "Présidentielle 2027 : Raphaël Glucksmann confirme sa candidature au scrutin",
  "articleBody": "La fin d'un faux suspense. Raphaël Glucksmann a confirmé, ce dimanche, sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle de 2027 ...",
  "description": "Ce dimanche, Raphaël Glucksmann a confirmé sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle au 20 heures de TF1",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-23T18:33:10.881Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-23T19:13:16.801Z",
  "publisher": { "type": "Organization", "name": "20 Minutes" }
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T22:55:04Z",
  "title": "Présidentielle 2027 : Raphaël Glucksmann confirme sa candidature au scrutin",
  "link": "https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/4240413-20260823-presidentielle-2027-raphael-glucksmann-confirme-candidature-scrutin",
  "guid": "https://www.20minutes.fr/politique/4240413-20260823-presidentielle-2027-raphael-glucksmann-confirme-candidature-scrutin",
  "pubDate": "Sun, 23 Aug 2026 18:33:10 GMT",
  "description": "Ce dimanche, Raphaël Glucksmann a confirmé sa candidature à l'élection présidentielle au 20 heures de TF1",
  "author": "Q.M. avec AFP",
  "body": "<p>La fin d'un faux suspense ...</p>",
  "categories": ["Politique", "Présidentielle 2027"]
}

Field	Type	Description
_input	string	The URL you requested, or "latest", for traceability.
_source	string	Which strategy produced this record.
_scrapedAt	string	UTC timestamp of when the record was captured.
headline / title	string	Article headline (headline in article mode, title in latest mode).
articleBody / body	string	Full article content — plain text in article mode, raw HTML in latest mode.
@type	string	"NewsArticle" for regular stories, "LiveBlogPosting" for live "direct" coverage (article mode only).
author	string	Byline (latest mode). Article mode carries a full author object from the source page.
categories	array	Topic tags (latest mode only).
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publication timestamps (article mode).
pubDate	string	Publication timestamp (latest mode).

A record with _error instead of article fields means that URL could not be processed (for example, "_error": "not_found" for a removed article).