New York Times News Scraper

New York Times Article Scraper

Extract article text, headline, byline, authors, publication date, categories, tags, and metadata from nytimes.com article URLs, including archive stories.

Why Use This Actor?

• Complete article text - the whole story, read from the data NYT's own website loads it from, so long-form and archive pieces come back whole. In our November 2026 sample the text matched NYT's word count on 10 of 10 articles, including stories from 2008 and 2019.
• Rich metadata - authors, published/modified dates, section and subsection, NYT topic tags, summary and lead image.
• Investigative journalism research - NYT investigative pieces are the definitive source for deep US stories.
• Cultural coverage - NYT covers books, film, food, and culture alongside hard news.

How It Works

Paste one or more article links. Each article comes back in a few seconds with its text and details; no browser is started.

Input

{
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/example-article.html",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/politics/article-one.html",
    "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/11/world/article-two.html"
  ]
,
  "mode": "article",
  "limit": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Proxy. Requests go through Apify Proxy, RESIDENTIAL by default, which gives the most reliable results; an article that does not load is retried up to 3 times. In testing, 68 of 68 fresh articles were extracted with the default setting.

You only pay for articles. A URL that yields no article text is never written to the dataset, so it is never charged. If no URL in the run produced an article, the run ends Failed and the status message says why (not_found for a URL that does not exist, blocked, or preview_only). If some succeed and some fail, the run succeeds and the status message lists the URLs that failed.

Output

{
  "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/nyregion/hezbollah-arrest-nyc-jewish-targets.html",
  "source": "New York Times",
  "title": "Kataib Hezbollah Commander Accused of Planning Attacks on N.Y.C.",
  "description": "Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi is accused of directing and urging others to attack American and Israeli interests. Prosecutors say he is a leader of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iraqi militia with ties to Iran.",
  "content": "A commander of an Iran-backed militia has been charged with plotting to attack Jewish sites in the United States, including a synagogue in New York City, federal authorities said. A criminal complaint unsealed on Friday accused the commander, Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood Al-Saadi, of planning at least 18 attacks in Europe and Canada since late February, in retaliation for the United States and Israel’s attacks on Iran. Mr....",
  "image": "https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/images/icons/defaultPromoCrop.png",
  "language": "en",
  "word_count": 313,
  "published_date": "2026-05-15T16:54:16.351Z",
  "modified_date": "",
  "authors": [],
  "categories": "",
  "tags": ""
}

Fetch Latest News

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

Input:

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

Output - array of objects:

[
  {
    "url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/world/asia/asia-pacific-iran-war-oil.html",
    "title": "The Iran War Sent Shock Waves Through Asia That Are Likely to Spread",
    "published_date": "Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:39:43 +0000",
    "source": "New York Times"
  }
  //...
]

Headlines come from NYT's public homepage 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 and no subscriber credentials. The actor uses no account, no paid-account cookies and no CAPTCHA solving.
• 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.
• Rate limits are respected. Requests are paced and retried politely; the actor is not designed for denial-of-service-scale traffic.