Article body
articleBody
Optional
Full article text, taken directly from the ld+json NewsArticle node's articleBody field (HTML entities decoded). Article mode only.
Daily Mirror Scraper
Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 results
Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Daily Mirror (dailymirror.lk), Sri Lanka's leading English-language daily -- no account or API key needed.
Input
_input
Optional
The exact input value (URL, or 'latest') that produced this record.
Source strategy
_source
Optional
Which extraction strategy emitted this record (e.g. S1-jsonld, S2-html-listing).
Scraped at
_scrapedAt
Optional
UTC ISO 8601 timestamp when this record was scraped.
Error
_error
Optional
Present only on failed extractions -- the error kind (e.g. "not_found" for dailymirror.lk's soft-404, which always responds HTTP 200).
Error detail
_errorDetail
Optional
Free-form diagnostic detail, present only alongside _error.
Article ID
articleId
Optional
Internal numeric Daily Mirror article ID, taken from the trailing digits of the article URL.
Category ID
categoryId
Optional
Internal numeric Daily Mirror category/section ID from the URL (e.g. 108 = Breaking News).
Category
category
Optional
URL path segment identifying the section (e.g. "breaking-news", "sports", "business", "school_rugby") -- derived from the URL since ld+json's articleSection field is always the static string "Sri Lanka" on every article.
Headline
headline
Optional
Article headline, from the NewsArticle ld+json node (HTML entities decoded).
Description
description
Optional
Short article summary, from the NewsArticle ld+json node (HTML entities decoded).
Article body
articleBody
Optional
Full article text, taken directly from the ld+json NewsArticle node's articleBody field (HTML entities decoded). Article mode only.
Date published
datePublished
Optional
ISO 8601 publish date from ld+json (article mode only).
Date modified
dateModified
Optional
ISO 8601 last-modified date from ld+json (article mode only).
Image
image
Optional
Lead image object (url/width/height) from ld+json, passed through as-is. "url" is sometimes the literal string "none" (no lead image) or a relative path rather than an absolute URL. Article mode only.
Title
title
Optional
Headline text of a latest-mode listing item, from the visible anchor text on the Breaking News category listing page.
Link
link
Optional
Article URL, from the Breaking News category listing page -- latest mode only.