Business Recorder Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Business Recorder (brecorder.com), Pakistan's leading financial/business daily — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required — fully free, open-access site with no paywall
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, description, byline, publish/modified dates, reconstructed into clean paragraphs
• Also fetches the newest headlines straight from the site's Google News sitemap without visiting each article individually
• 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 news sitemap and returns the newest 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.brecorder.com/news/40436274/psx-kse-100-closes-in-red-loses-200-points"
  ],
  "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 100.
maxConcurrency	integer	How many article pages to fetch in parallel. Default 4, max 16.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy configuration. Residential is on by default.

Output

Article mode — one record per URL, raw-passthrough of the site's own article metadata plus:

{
  "_input": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40436274/psx-kse-100-closes-in-red-loses-200-points",
  "_source": "S1-html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T17:15:20Z",
  "headline": "PSX: KSE-100 closes in red, loses 200 points",
  "description": "Benchmark index settles at 176,966.68",
  "articleBody": "A volatile trading session was observed...",
  "author": [{ "name": "BR Web Desk", "url": "..." }],
  "publisher": { "name": "Brecorder", "url": "..." },
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T10:04:31+05:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-24T18:27:25+05:00",
  "image": [{ "url": "...", "width": "1024", "height": "768" }]
}

Latest mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-sitemap",
  "title": "Govt increases petrol price by Re0.39, diesel by Rs2.40 per litre",
  "link": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/40436329/govt-increases-petrol-price-by-re039-diesel-by-rs240-per-litre",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-25",
  "language": "en"
}

A failed URL (removed article, network issue) still produces a row instead of silently disappearing:

{
  "_input": "https://www.brecorder.com/news/99999999999/nonexistent-article",
  "_source": "none",
  "_error": "not_found",
  "_errorDetail": ""
}

Notes

• Business Recorder has no RSS/Atom feed — latest mode uses the site's Google News XML sitemap instead, which carries roughly the 100 most recent articles.
• No paywall was found on any sampled article — full text is included for every successfully fetched URL.