Free Malaysia Today Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Free Malaysia Today (freemalaysiatoday.com), one of Malaysia's largest independent English-language news outlets — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required — fully free, ad-supported site with no paywall
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, byline, categories, tags, lead image, publish/modified dates
• Also fetches the newest headlines from the site's headline feed, complete with full article text for each headline (not just a teaser)
• Rich category and tag detail on every article, straight from the publisher's own content system
• 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, each with full article text included.
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.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/08/26/areas-with-unhealthy-air-quality-fall-to-16-nationwide"
  ],
  "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 50 (the feed carries 50 items per fetch).
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.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/08/26/areas-with-unhealthy-air-quality-fall-to-16-nationwide",
  "_source": "S1-nextdata",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-26T02:12:14Z",
  "__typename": "Post",
  "id": "cG9zdDoyNzg3NDgz",
  "databaseId": 2787483,
  "title": "Areas with unhealthy air quality fall to 16 nationwide",
  "excerpt": "<p>Sarawak and Selangor had the most areas in the unhealthy range as of 9am, with readings of up to 166.</p>\n",
  "slug": "areas-with-unhealthy-air-quality-fall-to-16-nationwide",
  "status": "publish",
  "date": "2026-08-26T10:01:17",
  "dateGmt": "2026-08-26T02:01:17",
  "modifiedGmt": "2026-08-26T02:01:17",
  "uri": "/category/nation/2026/08/26/areas-with-unhealthy-air-quality-fall-to-16-nationwide",
  "content": "<figure class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" data-media-id=\"3009535\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/v3/2026/08/0d572414-73ef-4eb4-bee5-f073509587df-jerebu-sarawak-resize-bernamapic-200826.jpg\" alt=\"jerebu sarawak\" ... (full HTML, truncated) ...",
  "featuredImage": {
    "node": {
      "databaseId": 3009535,
      "sourceUrl": "https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/v3/2026/08/0d572414-73ef-4eb4-bee5-f073509587df-jerebu-sarawak-resize-bernamapic-200826.jpg",
      "altText": "jerebu sarawak",
      "caption": "<p>(Bernama pic)</p>\n",
      "title": "jerebu sarawak resize bernamapic 200826.jpg",
      "mediaDetails": { "height": 1000, "width": 1600 }
    }
  },
  "categories": {
    "edges": [
      { "node": { "__typename": "Category", "databaseId": 1099, "name": "Borneo+", "slug": "sabahsarawak" } },
      { "node": { "__typename": "Category", "databaseId": 45, "name": "Highlight", "slug": "highlight" } },
      "... 2 more"
    ]
  },
  "author": {
    "node": {
      "id": "dXNlcjoyMjk=",
      "databaseId": 229,
      "name": "FMT Reporters",
      "slug": "fmtreporters",
      "uri": "/category/author/fmtreporters",
      "avatar": { "url": "https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/b75d430c-new-project.webp" },
      "jobTitle": null,
      "sameAs": []
    }
  },
  "tags": {
    "edges": [
      { "node": { "databaseId": 8693, "name": "air pollution", "slug": "air-pollution" } },
      "... 3 more"
    ]
  },
  "articleBody": "PETALING JAYA: The number of areas recording unhealthy air pollutant index (API) readings had fallen to 16 as of 9am today, down sharply from 30 at the same time yesterday.\n\nAccording to data from the Malaysian Air Pollutant Index Management System portal, unhealthy API readings were recorded at stations in five states and two federal territories.\n\n... (full plain-text article body, truncated)"
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline (truncated here for readability):

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-26T02:12:14Z",
  "title": "Areas with unhealthy air quality fall to 16 nationwide",
  "link": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/08/26/areas-with-unhealthy-air-quality-fall-to-16-nationwide",
  "creator": "FMT Reporters",
  "pubDate": "Wed, 26 Aug 2026 02:01:17 GMT",
  "guid": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/08/26/areas-with-unhealthy-air-quality-fall-to-16-nationwide",
  "description": "Sarawak and Selangor had the most areas in the unhealthy range as of 9am, with readings of up to 166.",
  "categories": ["Highlight", "Borneo+", "Malaysia", "Top News"],
  "content": "<figure class=\"aligncenter wp-caption\" data-media-id=\"3009535\"><img src=\"https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/...\" ... (full HTML, truncated) ...",
  "articleBody": "PETALING JAYA: The number of areas recording unhealthy air pollutant index (API) readings had fallen to 16 as of 9am today, down sharply from 30 at the same time yesterday.\n\n... (full plain-text article body, truncated)",
  "image": "https://media.freemalaysiatoday.com/v3/2026/08/0d572414-73ef-4eb4-bee5-f073509587df-jerebu-sarawak-resize-bernamapic-200826.jpg"
}

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.
title	string	Article headline (both modes).
content	string	Full article body as raw HTML (both modes).
articleBody	string	Full article body as plain text, paragraphs joined (both modes).
excerpt	string	Short teaser as raw HTML (article mode only).
description	string	Short teaser as plain text (latest mode only).
slug / status / uri	string	WordPress slug, publish status, and site-relative path (article mode only).
date / dateGmt / modifiedGmt	string	Publish/modified timestamps (article mode only).
pubDate	string	Publish timestamp (latest mode only).
link / guid	string	Article URL (latest mode only).
author	object	Byline details — name, profile URL, avatar (article mode only).
creator	string	Byline name only (latest mode only).
categories	object/array	Article mode: nested category objects. Latest mode: a plain list of category names.
tags	object	Nested tag objects (article mode only).
featuredImage	object	Lead image details — URL, caption, dimensions (article mode only).
image	string	Lead 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 or mistyped article URL).