Channel NewsAsia (CNA) Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Channel NewsAsia (channelnewsasia.com), Singapore's leading English-language broadcaster news site — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required — CNA is fully free, ad-supported, no paywall on any sampled content
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, description, publish/update dates, author, image
• Handles both regular articles and longform/brand-studio features whose body is split across many separate HTML blocks
• Also fetches the newest headlines from a single site-wide feed 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 headline feed 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.channelnewsasia.com/sport/uefas-ceferin-says-infantino-could-face-election-challenger-rules-out-fifa-bid-6336611"
  ],
  "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 20.
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.channelnewsasia.com/world/iran-new-gas-field-war-energy-6336561",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld+html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T23:28:38Z",
  "headline": "Iran says finds new gas, after war hits energy sector",
  "description": "TEHRAN: Iran said on Sunday (Aug 23) it had discovered more than 200 billion cubic metres of natural gas...",
  "articleBody": "TEHRAN: Iran said on Sunday (Aug 23) it had discovered more than 200 billion cubic metres of natural gas, months into the Middle East war...",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T06:37:00+08:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-24T06:39:36+08:00",
  "author": "CNA",
  "image": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/..."
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T23:28:29Z",
  "title": "UEFA's Ceferin says Infantino could face election challenger, rules out FIFA bid",
  "link": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/uefas-ceferin-says-infantino-could-face-election-challenger-rules-out-fifa-bid-6336611",
  "guid": "https://www.channelnewsasia.com/sport/uefas-ceferin-says-infantino-could-face-election-challenger-rules-out-fifa-bid-6336611",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:08:43 +0800",
  "description": null,
  "category": "Sport",
  "thumbnailUrl": "https://dam.mediacorp.sg/image/upload/..."
}

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.
articleBody	string	Full plain-text article content (article mode only).
author	string	Byline (article mode only) — often just "CNA" for wire/desk content.
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publication timestamps (article mode).
image	string	Lead image URL (article mode only).
pubDate	string	Publication timestamp (latest mode).
category	string	Section tag(s), comma-joined if multiple (latest mode only).
thumbnailUrl	string	Thumbnail image URL (latest mode only).

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