BILD Scraper

Extract full article details or the newest headlines from BILD, Germany's largest tabloid — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required
• Rich article detail: headline, description, byline with author job title, publish/update dates, topic keywords, and lead image
• Full article text where publicly available, plus a clear flag on articles behind BILD's paid tier
• Also fetches the newest headlines across all sections without visiting each article individually
• Stable JSON output suitable for pipelines, spreadsheets, or databases
• Automatic retries on temporary network hiccups

Note on paid articles: A subset of BILD articles ("BILDplus") are limited to subscribers. This actor returns everything that's publicly visible — headline, description, author, dates, keywords, and the free preview text — 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 across all sections.
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.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv-fernsehformate/steffen-henssler-diese-wette-kostet-ihn-den-bart-6a8ab2e40e5ea956d6e4f35d"
  ],
  "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 (free article, truncated here for readability — the real record includes the full author image/link and complete article text):

{
  "_input": "https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv-fernsehformate/steffen-henssler-diese-wette-kostet-ihn-den-bart-6a8ab2e40e5ea956d6e4f35d",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T00:27:37Z",
  "_paywalled": false,
  "headline": "Steffen Henssler: Diese Wette kostet ihn den Bart | Unterhaltung",
  "description": "Steffen Henssler verliert bei „Grill den Henssler“ eine Bart-Wette. Erfahren Sie, warum der Koch im nächsten Sommer-Special nur mit Schnurrbart auftritt.",
  "url": "https://www.bild.de/unterhaltung/tv-fernsehformate/steffen-henssler-diese-wette-kostet-ihn-den-bart-6a8ab2e40e5ea956d6e4f35d",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-23T23:52:24.825Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-23T23:52:24.825Z",
  "author": [
    { "@type": "Person", "name": "Nora Henze", "jobTitle": "Freie Redakteurin", "sameAs": ["https://www.linkedin.com/in/norahenze/"] }
  ],
  "keywords": "Henssler Steffen, Grill den Henssler, VOX, TV-Koch, Kochsendung, Team First",
  "isAccessibleForFree": true,
  "publisher": { "@type": "NewsMediaOrganization", "name": "BILD", "url": "https://www.bild.de/" },
  "articleBody": "Magdeburg (Sachsen-Anhalt) – Zum Auftakt der neuen „Grill den Henssler“-Sommer-Specials traten am Sonntag Dr. Carola „Doc Caro“ Holzner (44), Comedian Tony Bauer (30) und Tokio-Hotel-Drummer Gustav Sch...  /* full text, 3017 chars total */"
}

A paywalled ("BILDplus") article returns the same shape with _paywalled: true and a short articleBody (a few hundred characters instead of the full text):

{
  "_input": "https://www.bild.de/sport/fussball/sc-freiburg-schuster-spricht-ueber-atubolu-und-eintracht-6a8b4132c3692834ff6da623",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_paywalled": true,
  "headline": "SC Freiburg: Schuster spricht über Atubolu und Eintracht | Sport",
  "isAccessibleForFree": false,
  "articleBody": "Nach dem 5:1-Pokalerfolg... /* teaser only, ~650 chars */"
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest:bild.de",
  "_source": "S2-sitemap",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T00:26:51Z",
  "title": "Waldbrand in den USA: 90.000 Menschen in Nevada evakuiert",
  "link": "https://www.bild.de/news/ausland/waldbrand-in-den-usa-90-000-menschen-in-nevada-evakuiert-6a8b8875c3692834ff6da7b2",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-24T02:21:51+02:00",
  "keywords": "Feuerwehr, Waldbrand, Brand, Polizei, Nevada, USA, Team First"
}

Field	Type	Description
_input	string	The URL you requested, or "latest:bild.de" 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 BILD's paid tier (article mode only).
headline / title	string	Article headline.
description	string	Article summary/dek (article mode).
author	array	Byline(s), with job title and profile link where available.
datePublished / dateModified / publicationDate	string	Publication timestamps.
keywords	string	Comma-separated topic tags.
articleBody	string	Full article text, or a short teaser for paywalled articles.
link / url	string	The article URL.

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