Financial Times News Scraper

Financial Times Article Scraper

Extract the full text, headline, summary, authors, dates and image of any ft.com article, or list the newest FT headlines.

Why Use This Actor?

• Full article text - the whole story, not just the opening paragraphs. In our November 2026 test the text matched FT's own word count on every article we checked.
• Financial markets research - FT's analysis of macroeconomics, central banks and capital markets.
• Business intelligence - track coverage of specific companies, industries and economic trends.
• Global perspective - European, Asian and emerging-market news alongside US coverage.
• Fast and light - an article takes a few seconds; no browser is started.

You only pay for articles

A URL that gives no article is not added to your results and is not charged. If no URL in a run gives an article (for example the link is wrong or the page does not exist), the run ends Failed and its status message names the URL and the reason. When a run mixes good and bad URLs, it succeeds and the status message lists the URLs that failed.

Input

{
  "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/example-uuid",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.ft.com/content/uuid-one",
    "https://www.ft.com/content/uuid-two"
  ],
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10
}

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/66933e51-e06d-475c-aed2-f808f9443dea",
  "source": "Financial Times",
  "title": "Donald Trump undecided on Taiwan arms sale after summit with Xi Jinping",
  "description": "US president raises doubts about $14bn weapons package for Taipei after two days of meetings in China",
  "content": "Donald Trump said he had not yet determined whether to approve a $14bn US arms sale to Taipei after a two-day summit with Xi Jinping at which the Chinese president warned him not to “mishandle” the Taiwan issue. Speaking on Air Force One after the conclusion of the visit on Friday, Trump said he had not decided on the arms sale, which has already been authorised by his administration, adding: “I’ll make a determination over the next fairly short period.” The US president said the leaders had dis...",
  "image": "https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fd3927c5d-5105-4959-8281-95f9acc20468.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&width=700&dpr=1",
  "language": "en-GB",
  "word_count": 905,
  "published_date": "2026-05-15T16:08:18.721Z",
  "modified_date": "2026-05-15T16:08:18.000Z",
  "authors": [
    "James Politi",
    "Demetri Sevastopulo",
    "Edward White",
    "Joe Leahy"
  ],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

Set mode to "latest" to fetch the newest article URLs and titles from Financial Times instead of extracting a single article.

Input:

{
  "mode": "latest",
  "limit": 10
}

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/9f8d01dd-4ef8-475e-8b76-9cb0e325fb60",
    "title": "Starmer set for vetting showdown with ‘heartbroken’ Olly Robbins",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:03:15 GMT",
    "source": "Financial Times"
  }
]

Headlines come from FT's public news feed.

Cron Schedule: Auto-Fetch Newest Articles

Combine mode: "latest" and mode: "article" to keep a fresh feed running on autopilot:

1. Schedule a recurring run of this Actor with {"mode": "latest", "limit": 20} via Apify Schedules (UI ▸ Schedules ▸ Create new). A cron expression like */30 * * * * runs it every 30 minutes.
2. Webhook the dataset of the latest run into another Actor run with mode: "article" and the new URLs as input — Apify integrations let you chain runs via the "Actor finished" webhook without any glue code.
3. The article-mode run extracts the full body, image, authors, and metadata for each URL and appends to your master dataset.

Common cron expressions:

Frequency	Cron
Every 15 minutes	*/15 * * * *
Hourly	0 * * * *
Every 6 hours	0 */6 * * *
Daily at 06:00 UTC	0 6 * * *

Other News Actors

Need a different news source? All actors in this collection:

Actor	Source
aljazeera-scraper	Al Jazeera
apnews-scraper	AP News
bbc-scraper	BBC News
cnbc-scraper	CNBC
forbes-scraper	Forbes
fortune-scraper	Fortune
ft-scraper	Financial Times
guardian-scraper	The Guardian
msn-scraper	MSN News
nytimes-scraper	New York Times
reuters-scraper	Reuters
scmp-scraper	South China Morning Post
techcrunch-scraper	TechCrunch
upi-scraper	UPI
yahoo-finance-scraper	Yahoo Finance
smart-news-loader	Any news site
bloomberg-scraper	Bloomberg

All actors support mode: "latest" for fetching newest article URLs from each source.

Scope & Compliance

• No login needed. You do not need an FT account.
• Copyright stays with the publisher. Output is intended for research, monitoring, archiving and analysis. You are responsible for using it in line with the publisher's Terms of Service, copyright law and any applicable data-protection rules — republishing article text is generally not permitted.
• Polite pace. Articles are fetched one at a time; the actor is not built for very high-volume traffic.