Gulf News Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Gulf News (gulfnews.com), the UAE's largest English-language news portal — 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, description, byline(s), section, keywords, publish/update dates, lead image
• Handles both regular articles and live-updating world-news stories
• Automatically cleans up stray HTML entities the site embeds directly in its data
• Also fetches the newest headlines from the 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://gulfnews.com/world/americas/trump-takes-starring-role-at-washingtons-indycar-debut-1.500649812"
  ],
  "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.
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://gulfnews.com/world/americas/trump-takes-starring-role-at-washingtons-indycar-debut-1.500649812",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T23:59:07Z",
  "headline": "Trump takes starring role at Washington's IndyCar debut",
  "description": "Trump set for starring role at Washington's debut IndyCar race",
  "articleBody": "US President Donald Trump rode a ceremonial lap in his armored limousine and waved the green flag to start Sunday's IndyCar race...",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T02:51:55+04:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-24T02:51:55+04:00",
  "author": "Reuters",
  "keywords": null,
  "image": "https://media.assettype.com/gulfnews/..."
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-sitemap",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T23:59:05Z",
  "title": "US sanctions pressure Iran as Hormuz tensions persist; Iran president admits country facing 'many problems'",
  "link": "https://gulfnews.com/world/us-sanctions-pressure-iran-as-hormuz-tensions-persist-1.500649350",
  "publicationDate": "2026-08-24T03:50:51.928+04:00",
  "keywords": ["World", "Mena", "US-Israel-Iran war"],
  "imageUrl": "https://media.assettype.com/gulfnews/2026-08-20/s40byxbt/hormuz.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.
headline / title	string	Article headline.
description	string	Teaser/summary, when the site provides one (article mode only).
articleBody	string	Full plain-text article content (article mode only).
author	string	Byline(s), comma-joined when multiple contributors are credited (article mode only).
keywords	string or array	Tag keyword(s).
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publication timestamps (article mode).
image / imageUrl	string	Lead image URL.
publicationDate	string	Publication timestamp (latest mode).

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