Livemint Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from Livemint (Mint), one of India's leading business and financial dailies — no account or subscription needed.

Why use this actor

• No account or login required
• Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, author, keywords, section, and publish/update dates
• Also fetches the newest headlines (with lead image) from a single combined 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.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/usiran-war-to-crude-oil-prices-top-five-triggers-that-may-dictate-the-indian-stock-market-this-week-11786846871492.html"
  ],
  "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 30.
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.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/usiran-war-to-crude-oil-prices-top-five-triggers-that-may-dictate-the-indian-stock-market-this-week-11786846871492.html",
  "_source": "S1-jsonld",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T19:32:31Z",
  "@type": "NewsArticle",
  "inLanguage": "en",
  "headline": "US-Iran war to crude oil prices: Top five triggers that may dictate the Indian stock market this week",
  "description": "Indian stock market: For the week, the Sensex fell 0.62% to 78,009.25, while the Nifty declined 0.83% to 24,366. While some of the global triggers continue this week, read on to know what are the fresh factors to watch out for this week.",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-16T08:23:35+05:30",
  "dateModified": "2026-08-23T22:35:46+05:30",
  "alternativeHeadline": "US-Iran war to crude oil prices: Top five triggers that may dictate the Indian stock market this week",
  "articleBody": "Indian stock market: The Indian stock market closed the week on a weaker note, weighed down by elevated crude oil prices, renewed geopolitical tensions and mixed global signals...",
  "author": { "...": "..." },
  "publisher": { "...": "..." },
  "image": { "...": "..." },
  "keywords": ["..."],
  "mentions": ["..."]
}

Latest headlines mode — one record per headline:

{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-23T19:32:30Z",
  "title": "Trump crackdown could take 200,000 immigrant truck drivers off the roads",
  "link": "https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/trump-crackdown-could-take-200-000-immigrant-truck-drivers-off-the-roads-11787505496294.html",
  "guid": "https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/trump-crackdown-could-take-200-000-immigrant-truck-drivers-off-the-roads-11787505496294.html",
  "pubDate": "Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:24:16 +0530",
  "description": "Critics argue that the campaign is being driven less by public safety concerns and more by the administration's broader mass deportation and \"America First\" agenda.",
  "imageUrl": "https://www.livemint.com/lm-img/img/2026/08/23/1600x900/logo/pexels-photo-2199293_1787507447241_1787507457886_19405a92-e2ee-46c8-93de-059a7a7fb463.jpeg"
}

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 (headline in article mode, title in latest mode).
articleBody	string	Full plain-text article content (article mode only).
description	string	Article summary/dek.
author	object	Byline (name, URL) (article mode only).
keywords	array	Topic tags (article mode only).
datePublished / dateModified	string	Publication timestamps (article mode).
pubDate	string	Publication timestamp (latest mode).
link	string	The article URL (latest mode).
imageUrl	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 article).