We extract news articles, author profiles, category metadata, and historical archives from abc.es. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Articles (News) objects from abc.es. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.abc.es/economia/noticia-ejemplo.html", "headline": "El BCE mantiene los tipos de interés", "author": "Juan Pérez", "publish_date": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z", "category": "Economía", "premium_flag": false, "word_count": 845
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from abc.es. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "auth_8492", "name": "María García", "profile_url": "https://www.abc.es/autores/maria-garcia/", "twitter_handle": "@mariagarcia_abc", "article_count": 412, "latest_article_date": "2026-05-11T18:30:00Z", "role": "Redactora Jefe"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Categories objects from abc.es. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"section_name": "Deportes", "url": "https://www.abc.es/deportes/", "parent_section": "Home", "article_count_24h": 84, "top_headline": "El Real Madrid gana la final", "trending_tags": "['Champions League', 'Fútbol', 'Real Madrid']", "scraped_at": "2026-05-12T09:15:00Z"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Comments objects from abc.es. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_url": "https://www.abc.es/espana/noticia-politica.html", "comment_count": 342, "latest_comment_date": "2026-05-12T08:45:00Z", "top_comment_author": "LectorHabitual", "top_comment_upvotes": 156, "share_count": 1205
| # | article_url | comment_count | latest_comment_date | top_comment_text | top_comment_author | top_comment_upvotes |
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Complete list of extractable fields for Hemeroteca objects from abc.es. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"archive_date": "1978-12-06", "edition": "Madrid", "page_number": 1, "pdf_available": true, "headline_list": "['Aprobada la Constitución']", "source_url": "https://www.abc.es/archivo/periodicos/abc-madrid-19781206.html"
| # | archive_date | edition | page_number | cover_image_url | headline_list | pdf_available |
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Our abc.es scraper navigates modern bot protection, infinite scroll pagination, and regional edition routing to deliver clean, structured news metadata and article text.
Extract headline, subheadline, full body text, tags, and publication timestamps across all abc.es sections.
Map articles to specific journalists. Track author output, role, and bio metadata across the publisher.
Extract historical archive data from ABC's Hemeroteca, parsing legacy DOM structures for digitised newspaper records.
Inject location cookies to scrape specific regional editions like ABC Sevilla, Madrid, or Valencia.
Accurately flag paywalled articles (ABC Premium) versus free content, extracting available metadata without credential requirements.
Capture image URLs, video embed links, and captions associated with news articles.
Extract keyword tags and section hierarchies for NLP processing and entity recognition.
Track comment counts and basic engagement metrics to gauge public reaction to specific news topics.
Run daily archive dumps or configure hourly feeds for breaking news and front-page monitoring.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target sections, author profiles, or date ranges for the Hemeroteca. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for abc.es.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and text-encoding verification before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News publishers deploy aggressive caching and bot mitigation. Here is how we maintain reliable extraction.
Large publishers use edge networks to block datacenter IPs. We route requests through Spanish residential proxies to maintain high success rates without triggering rate limits.
Section pages on abc.es load older articles via JavaScript infinite scroll. We use Playwright to simulate user scrolling, ensuring complete historical coverage for category feeds.
We detect paywall markers and truncate logic to cleanly separate free text from gated content, preventing pipeline crashes when encountering ABC Premium articles.
ABC serves different content based on region. We manage cookie jars per crawler instance to explicitly target editions like Sevilla or Madrid.
The digital archive contains decades of varying HTML structures. Our extraction logic uses broad fallback chains to normalise text from 1990s layouts into modern schemas.
Track brand mentions, executive coverage, and sentiment across national and regional Spanish news.
Train language models on high-quality Spanish journalism with accurate metadata and taxonomy tags.
Track coverage trends, keyword frequency, and editorial focus over time across different political cycles.
Analyze publishing frequency, author output, and section volume for competitive media benchmarking.
Conduct linguistic and historical analysis using decades of structured data from the ABC Hemeroteca.
Maintain independent records of news modifications, tracking headline changes and article updates.
"ABC.es holds over a century of Spanish historical record and daily political discourse, but extracting it requires navigating modern bot protection and legacy archive structures."
Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable abc.es scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for infinite scroll, handling regional edition cookies, and parsing inconsistent DOM structures in historical archives. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis — not the infrastructure.
Everything supported by our abc.es scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions for regional editions, and infinite scroll.
We maintain pools of Spanish residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to bypass edge network bot protection.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling for daily archive runs or hourly breaking news feeds.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About abc.es scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available information is generally permissible under applicable law, reinforced by the hiQ v. LinkedIn ruling. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated news data. We do not extract personal user data or bypass paywalls using stolen credentials.
We use Spanish residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour to bypass edge network protections.
Yes. We can crawl the historical archive by date ranges, extracting available text, headlines, and metadata, while handling the inconsistent legacy HTML structures.
No. We extract the metadata, headline, and the free preview text, but we do not bypass the paywall to extract gated content.
Yes. We configure the crawler to inject the necessary location cookies to ensure the targeted regional edition is loaded and scraped.
For front-page and specific section monitoring, we can configure pipelines to run at sub-15-minute intervals, delivering new articles via Webhook immediately upon detection.
Our smallest packages start at a defined section list or a specific archive date range. Contact us with your volume requirements for a scoped quote.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off historical archive dump or a continuous news-monitoring feed — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
