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RUN · 31 active pipelines · ansa.it live

Italian wire news,
at sub-minute latency.

We extract breaking news, political commentary, economic reports, and regional updates from ansa.it. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Articles extracted
14.2K /day
Breaking updates
8.9K /24h
Archive records
4.1M /run
Active pipelines
31
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from ansa.it

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for News Articles objects from ansa.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

article_idurlheadlinesubheadlinebody_textauthorpublish_dateupdate_datecategorytagsimage_url
news_articles
● 200 OK
"article_id": "a9f8b7c6",
"url": "https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/politica/2026/05/12/governo-approva-decreto.html",
"headline": "Il governo approva il nuovo decreto economico",
"subheadline": "Misure per il sostegno alle imprese e riduzione del cuneo fiscale",
"author": "Redazione ANSA",
"publish_date": "2026-05-12T14:30:00Z",
"category": "Politica",
"tags": "['Governo', 'Economia', 'Decreto']"
# article_idurlheadlinesubheadlinebody_textauthor
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Complete list of extractable fields for Breaking News (Ultima Ora) objects from ansa.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

wire_idheadlinesummarytimestampprioritycategoryregionrelated_linkssource_url
breaking_news (ultima ora)
● 200 OK
"wire_id": "uo_98234",
"headline": "Borsa di Milano chiude in rialzo a +1.2%",
"summary": "Trainano i titoli bancari ed energetici nel finale di seduta.",
"timestamp": "2026-05-12T17:35:12Z",
"priority": "high",
"category": "Economia",
"region": "Lombardia"
# wire_idheadlinesummarytimestampprioritycategory
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Complete list of extractable fields for Economy & Finance objects from ansa.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

article_idheadlinemarket_indexcompany_mentionsticker_symbolsbody_textpublish_dateauthorsource_url
economy_& finance
● 200 OK
"article_id": "ec_112233",
"headline": "Eni annuncia nuovi investimenti nelle rinnovabili",
"company_mentions": "['Eni', 'Snam']",
"ticker_symbols": "['ENI.MI', 'SRG.MI']",
"publish_date": "2026-05-12T09:15:00Z",
"author": "Redazione Economia",
"source_url": "https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/economia/2026/05/12/eni-rinnovabili.html"
# article_idheadlinemarket_indexcompany_mentionsticker_symbolsbody_text
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Complete list of extractable fields for Regional News (Regioni) objects from ansa.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

region_nameprovinceheadlinebody_textlocal_tagspublish_dateauthorimage_urlsource_url
regional_news (regioni)
● 200 OK
"region_name": "Lazio",
"province": "Roma",
"headline": "Nuovo piano viabilità per il centro storico",
"local_tags": "['Traffico', 'Comune di Roma', 'ZTL']",
"publish_date": "2026-05-12T11:20:00Z",
"author": "Redazione Roma",
"source_url": "https://www.ansa.it/lazio/notizie/2026/05/12/viabilita-roma.html"
# region_nameprovinceheadlinebody_textlocal_tagspublish_date
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Complete list of extractable fields for Multimedia & Photos objects from ansa.it. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

media_idtitledescriptionmedia_typedurationresolutionpublish_datetagssource_url
multimedia_& photos
● 200 OK
"media_id": "ph_554433",
"title": "Galleria fotografica: Il vertice europeo a Bruxelles",
"media_type": "photo_gallery",
"publish_date": "2026-05-12T16:00:00Z",
"tags": "['Unione Europea', 'Vertice', 'Bruxelles']",
"source_url": "https://www.ansa.it/sito/photogallery/primopiano/2026/05/12/vertice-ue.html",
"description": "Le immagini dell'incontro tra i leader europei."
# media_idtitledescriptionmedia_typedurationresolution
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Capabilities

Structured Italian news — delivered at wire speed

Our ansa.it pipeline handles high-frequency polling, pagination across regional subdomains, and strict parsing of varied article templates to deliver clean, NLP-ready text.

High-Frequency Polling

Monitor the 'Ultima Ora' breaking news feed with sub-minute polling intervals for algorithmic trading and real-time alerts.

Full Article Extraction

Capture headline, subheadline, body text, author, and publication timestamps across all public categories.

Regional Coverage

Extract localized news from all 20 Italian regions, mapping province-level tags and local government updates.

Tag & Metadata Parsing

Extract entity tags, categories, and related article links to build relational graphs of news topics.

Multimedia Metadata

Scrape metadata from photo galleries and video embeds, including captions, descriptions, and source URLs.

Historical Archive Retrieval

Traverse date-based pagination to extract years of historical articles for ML training and sentiment baseline generation.

UTF-8 Localisation

Native handling of Italian character encoding, ensuring clean text extraction without garbled accents or malformed strings.

Change Detection

Track article updates and headline revisions over time, storing diffs when breaking news stories evolve.

Paywall Detection

Automatically identify ANSA Premium articles, extracting available public summaries while flagging gated content.

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From wire feed to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, regions, or historical date ranges. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and CAPTCHA handling for ansa.it.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, encoding verification, and sample articles before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Ansa.it pipeline manages wire-speed extraction

News agencies employ caching layers and anti-bot measures to protect their feeds. Here is how we maintain reliability.

pipeline-monitor · ansa.it · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
High-frequency polling
Distributed requests for breaking news

To capture 'Ultima Ora' updates instantly, we distribute polling requests across a wide pool of Italian residential IPs, avoiding rate limits while maintaining sub-minute latency.

Template variations
Resilient DOM parsing across categories

Ansa.it uses different HTML templates for politics, sports, and regional news. Our parsers use fallback chains to ensure body text and authors are captured regardless of layout variations.

Encoding management
Clean text for NLP models

Italian wire text frequently contains specific typographic characters and accents. We enforce strict UTF-8 normalization during extraction, delivering clean strings ready for ingestion by sentiment analysis models.

Update tracking
Versioning evolving stories

Breaking news articles are updated multiple times. We maintain a hash index of article content, emitting a new record only when the body text or headline is revised.

Media extraction
Handling dynamic gallery loads

Photo galleries and video descriptions often load dynamically. We utilise Playwright where necessary to trigger lazy-loaded media assets and extract the complete metadata payload.

Applications

Who uses Ansa.it data — and how

Teams across industries use ansa.it data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Algorithmic Trading

Quantitative funds ingest breaking economic and political news to trigger automated trading strategies based on sentiment analysis.

02
Media Monitoring

PR agencies and corporate communications teams track brand mentions, press release pickup, and executive visibility across national and regional feeds.

03
Political Analysis

Think tanks and researchers monitor policy announcements, government decrees, and regional political shifts in real time.

04
LLM Training

AI companies extract decades of high-quality, editorially reviewed Italian text to train language models and translation engines.

05
Competitive Intelligence

Corporations track industry news, competitor announcements, and market trends across specific vertical categories.

06
Risk Management

Supply chain and risk analysts monitor regional news for strikes, weather events, or infrastructure disruptions affecting operations.

Why DataFlirt

"Ansa.it is the definitive source of record for Italian news and politics — but ingesting wire-speed updates requires infrastructure built for microsecond latency."

Extracting news from top-tier wire services involves handling erratic update frequencies, varied article templates, and strict anti-bot measures. DataFlirt manages the residential proxy networks and parsing logic so your data science teams receive clean, structured text ready for NLP and sentiment models.

Technical Spec

Ansa.it scraper — technical capabilities

Everything supported by our ansa.it scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

Breaking news polling
Sub-minute frequency checks on the 'Ultima Ora' feed
Supported
Historical archives
Extraction of past articles via date-based pagination
Supported
Regional subdomains
Full coverage of all 20 regional news sections
Supported
Tag & entity extraction
Mapping of article tags to structured array fields
Supported
Change detection
Tracking and versioning of updated breaking news articles
Supported
UTF-8 Normalisation
Strict encoding rules for Italian typographic characters
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per article for real-time downstream processing
Supported
Multimedia metadata
Extraction of photo captions, video descriptions, and source URLs
Supported
ANSA Premium articles
Full text of gated, subscriber-only content
Partial
Subscriber-only PDF reports
Download and parsing of gated industry reports
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Ansa.it pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across IT/EU regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested — schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns — Excel/Sheets compatible
XLS
Formatted spreadsheet for manual review and reporting
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
AWS S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoint to query your extracted data on demand
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow — incremental or full-replace
Postgres
Upsert into your existing schema with conflict resolution
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About ansa.it scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Can you track breaking news in real time?

Yes. We configure dedicated pipelines to poll the 'Ultima Ora' and breaking news feeds at sub-minute intervals, delivering JSON payloads via Webhook instantly upon publication.

Do you extract historical articles from Ansa.it?

Yes. We can traverse the site's pagination and date-based archives to extract historical articles, which is highly requested for training language models and establishing sentiment baselines.

How do you handle ANSA Premium paywalls?

Our scrapers detect paywall elements automatically. We extract the publicly available headline, subheadline, and snippet, and flag the record as 'premium_gated' in the output schema. We do not circumvent authentication walls.

Can you extract data from the regional sections?

Yes. The pipeline supports all 20 regional subdomains (Regioni), extracting localized tags, province markers, and regional political updates alongside the national feed.

How is article updating handled?

News agencies frequently update active stories. We maintain hash indexes of article content. When a headline or body changes, we extract the new version and emit a diff record with an updated timestamp.

Is the Italian text encoding preserved correctly?

Yes. We enforce strict UTF-8 normalisation across the pipeline. Accents, special characters, and typographic quotes are preserved exactly as published, ensuring compatibility with NLP processing tools.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at daily extraction of specific categories. For high-frequency polling or full historical archive dumps, we price based on compute volume and delivery cadence. Contact us with your requirements.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=ansa.it ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical archive dump for LLM training or a continuous breaking news feed for algorithmic trading — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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