The Express Tribune Scraper
Pricing
from $3.50 / 1,000 results
Extract full article text or the newest headlines from The Express Tribune (tribune.com.pk), a major Pakistani English-language daily -- no account or API key needed.
Input
_input
Optional
The exact input value that produced this record: the article URL in article mode, or the literal string 'latest' in latest mode.
Source strategy
_source
Optional
Which extraction strategy emitted this record, e.g. 'S1-html[express-parent-div]' or 'S1-html[custom-row]' for article mode (named after the body-container template found), 'S2-sitemap' for latest mode, or 'none' on a failed extraction.
Scraped at
_scrapedAt
Optional
UTC ISO 8601 timestamp when this record was scraped.
Error
_error
Optional
Present only on failed article extractions -- the error kind: 'not_found' (HTTP 404), 'http_' (other non-200 status), or 'blocked_or_transient' (Cloudflare challenge / connection issue, indistinguishable from a nonexistent story ID).
Error detail
_errorDetail
Optional
Free-form diagnostic detail, present only alongside _error (e.g. the repr() of the underlying exception for blocked_or_transient).
Headline
headline
Optional
Article headline, from NewsArticle ld+json 'headline' (article mode only).
Description
description
Optional
Article summary/description, from NewsArticle ld+json 'description' (article mode only).
Article body
articleBody
Optional
Full article text, extracted from the page's body container (div.express-parent-div or, as a fallback, div.custom-row) as paragraphs joined by blank lines. Boilerplate paragraphs (comment prompts, copyright notice, 'Read More:' related-article links) are filtered out (article mode only).
Publisher
publisher
Optional
Publisher name, from NewsArticle ld+json 'publisher.name' (article mode only).
Date published
datePublished
Optional
Publication date/time, from NewsArticle ld+json 'datePublished' (article mode only).
Date modified
dateModified
Optional
Last-modified date/time, from NewsArticle ld+json 'dateModified' (article mode only).
Image
image
Optional
Article image URL(s), from NewsArticle ld+json 'image' -- may be a string or an array depending on upstream shape (article mode only).
Title
title
Optional
Readable title derived from the URL slug (last path segment, hyphens replaced with spaces, title-cased) -- cosmetic only, not the real headline (latest mode only).
Link
link
Optional
Article URL, from the sitemap's element (latest mode only).
Last modified
lastmod
Optional
Sitemap value for this URL, if present (latest mode only).
