# Motley Fool Scraper (`zucchini_gopher_m2v/motleyfool-scraper`) Actor

Extract full article text or the newest headlines from The Motley Fool (fool.com), a major investing/stock-analysis media outlet -- no account or API key needed.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/zucchini\_gopher\_m2v/motleyfool-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Faisal Ahdan naufal](https://apify.com/zucchini_gopher_m2v) (community)
- **Categories:** News
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
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- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Motley Fool Scraper

Extract full article text or the newest headlines (with full text included) from The Motley Fool (fool.com), a major investing and stock-analysis media outlet — no account or subscription needed for its free articles.

### Why use this actor

- No account or login required — the free articles (the vast majority of fool.com's news/analysis content) have no paywall
- Full article text included, not just a summary — headline, description, author, publish date, reconstructed into clean paragraphs
- Latest-headlines mode returns **full article text for every item**, not just titles — the RSS feed embeds the complete body
- Automatically strips image-caption clutter ("Image source: The Motley Fool.") that would otherwise pollute the article body
- 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 RSS feed, which already embeds full article HTML, and returns the newest stories with full text.
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):

```json
{
  "mode": "article",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/time-sensitive-should-you-buy-marvell-technology-s/"
  ],
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}
```

**Latest headlines mode:**

```json
{
  "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 with full text. |
| `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):

```json
{
  "_input": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/time-sensitive-should-you-buy-marvell-technology-s/",
  "_source": "S1-html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T16:42:56Z",
  "headline": "Should You Buy Marvell Technology Stock Before Aug. 27?",
  "description": "The chip designer and optical networking maker reports second quarter earnings on Thursday...",
  "articleBody": "Marvell Technology ( MRVL -3.30% ) has delivered a standout performance among semiconductor stocks...",
  "author": "Adam Spatacco",
  "datePublished": "2026-08-24T15:16:21Z",
  "image": "https://g.foolcdn.com/editorial/images/..."
}
```

**Latest headlines mode** — one record per headline, with full text already included:

```json
{
  "_input": "latest",
  "_source": "S2-rss",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T16:45:19Z",
  "title": "Prediction: 1 Cryptocurrency That Will Be Worth More Than Bitcoin and Ethereum Combined",
  "link": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/prediction-1-cryptocurrency-that-will-be-worth-mor/",
  "description": "If there's one cryptocurrency with a chance of outpacing Bitcoin and Ethereum over the next five years, it's Solana.",
  "author": "Dominic Basulto",
  "articleBody": "It's remarkable how dominant Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) have been over the past decade...",
  "pubDate": "Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:15:00 -0400"
}
```

| 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. |
| `articleBody` | string | Full plain-text article content, present in both modes. |
| `author` | string | Author display name. |
| `datePublished` | string | ISO-8601 timestamp (article mode only). |
| `image` | string | Hero image URL (article mode only). |
| `link` | string | Article URL, stripped of `?source=...` tracking params (latest mode). |
| `pubDate` | string | RFC-822 publish timestamp as given by the feed (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).

### A note on paid content

The Motley Fool sells premium stock-recommendation newsletters (separate from fool.com's free articles) whose content lives behind `/premium` paths that are excluded by `robots.txt` and were never targeted by this actor. Every URL this actor was built and tested against is free, public content.

# Actor input Schema

## `mode` (type: `string`):

"article" extracts one or more article URLs. "latest" fetches the newest headlines (with full text) from the RSS feed.

## `url` (type: `string`):

A single fool.com article URL to extract. Used when mode is "article".

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Multiple fool.com article URLs to extract in one run. Used when mode is "article".

## `limit` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of headlines to return in "latest" mode.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many article pages to fetch in parallel in "article" mode.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy configuration. Residential is on by default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "mode": "article",
  "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/time-sensitive-should-you-buy-marvell-technology-s/",
  "limit": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

All scraped article / latest-headline records produced by this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "mode": "article",
    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/time-sensitive-should-you-buy-marvell-technology-s/",
    "limit": 10,
    "maxConcurrency": 4,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("zucchini_gopher_m2v/motleyfool-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "mode": "article",
    "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/time-sensitive-should-you-buy-marvell-technology-s/",
    "limit": 10,
    "maxConcurrency": 4,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("zucchini_gopher_m2v/motleyfool-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "mode": "article",
  "url": "https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/08/24/time-sensitive-should-you-buy-marvell-technology-s/",
  "limit": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 4,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call zucchini_gopher_m2v/motleyfool-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,zucchini_gopher_m2v/motleyfool-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/JLkxSwg0hEeV6QmAi/builds/m2rTA3JyDNIgY0DPG/openapi.json