Aftenposten Scraper

Extract full article details or the newest headlines from Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required
• Rich article detail: headline, description, byline, publish/update dates, section, topic keywords, word count, and lead image
• Also fetches the newest headlines site-wide without visiting each article individually
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, or databases
• Automatic retries on temporary network hiccups

Note on paid articles: Aftenposten limits some articles to subscribers. This actor returns everything that's publicly visible and flags such records with _paywalled: true.

How it works

1. Give the actor one or more article URLs, or switch to "latest" mode.
2. In article mode, the actor opens each URL and pulls out every publicly available detail about the story.
3. In latest mode, the actor reads the site-wide newest-articles feed and returns the freshest stories.
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.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/3pXKAq/flygelederstreiken-norwegian-kansellerer-seks-flyginger-wideroee-tre"
  ],
  "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 site-wide.
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 50.
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 — the real record includes full author and image details):

{
  "_input": "https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/3pXKAq/flygelederstreiken-norwegian-kansellerer-seks-flyginger-wideroee-tre",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T00:40:00Z",
  "_paywalled": false,
  "headline": "Flygelederstreiken: Norwegian kansellerer seks flyginger, Widerøe tre",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T...",
  "wordCount": 119,
  "articleSection": "Økonomi",
  "description": "Streiken blant franske flygeledere fører til kanselleringer for norske flyselskap.",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "publisher": { "@type": "NewsMediaOrganization", "name": "Aftenposten" },
  "articleBody": "Flygelederstreiken i Frankrike fører til at Norwegian kansellerer seks flyginger... /* full text, 1013 chars total */"
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest:aftenposten.no",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T00:40:00Z",
  "title": "Flygelederstreiken: Norwegian kansellerer seks flyginger, Widerøe tre",
  "link": "https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/3pXKAq/flygelederstreiken-norwegian-kansellerer-seks-flyginger-wideroee-tre",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 ...",
  "description": "Streiken blant franske flygeledere fører til kanselleringer for norske flyselskap."
}

Field	Type	Description
_input	string	The URL you requested, or "latest:aftenposten.no" in latest mode.
_source	string	Which strategy produced this record.
_scrapedAt	string	UTC timestamp of when the record was captured.
_paywalled	boolean	true if the article is behind Aftenposten's paid tier (article mode only).
headline / title	string	Article headline.
description	string	Article summary/dek.
wordCount	integer	Word count as reported by the source (article mode).
articleSection	string	Section/category the article belongs to (article mode).
articleBody	string	Full article text where publicly available.
link	string	The article URL.

A record with _error instead of article fields means that URL could not be processed — "_error": "not_found" for a removed article, or "_error": "not_a_news_article" for a non-news page (for example, a culture or review page).