We extract breaking news, political coverage, sports wires, and syndicated reports from AP News. 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 objects from apnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_id": "a9b8c7d6e5f4g3h2i1", "url": "https://apnews.com/article/example-news-event", "headline": "Global summit concludes with new climate targets", "author": "Jane Doe", "published_date": "2023-10-24T14:30:00Z", "body_text": "World leaders gathered today to finalise the text of the new environmental accord...", "topics": "['Climate', 'Politics', 'Global Summit']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Live Blogs objects from apnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"blog_id": "live-blog-88392", "status": "ACTIVE", "update_id": "upd-49201", "update_timestamp": "2023-10-24T15:45:12Z", "update_text": "The delegation has just entered the main hall for the afternoon session.", "pinned_status": false
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Complete list of extractable fields for Elections objects from apnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"race_id": "senate-pa-2024", "state": "Pennsylvania", "candidate_name": "John Smith", "party": "Democratic", "votes": 2450192, "called_status": "PENDING"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Fact Checks objects from apnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"claim_id": "fc-99281", "claim_text": "New legislation bans the sale of all gas stoves.", "rating": "FALSE", "fact_check_body": "The proposed regulations affect only new construction and do not ban existing appliances.", "published_date": "2023-10-22T09:15:00Z", "author": "AP Fact Check Team"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from apnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "auth-1029", "name": "Jane Doe", "role": "National Political Reporter", "location": "Washington, D.C.", "twitter_handle": "@janedoe_ap", "article_count": 412
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Our AP News scraper handles every layer of the publication: breaking news feeds, dynamic live blogs, election race calls, and fact-checking archives — with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.
Headlines, subheadlines, paragraphs, and blockquotes parsed accurately without advertising injection or boilerplate navigation.
Extract timestamped updates from ongoing coverage. Capture pinned posts, media attachments, and author attributions per update.
Isolate claims, AP ratings, detailed explanations, and source links for misinformation research and NLP validation.
Monitor AP race calls, vote counts, precinct reporting percentages, and candidate metrics during election cycles.
Extract high-resolution image URLs, video embed links, captions, and photographer credits embedded within articles.
Map articles to specific journalists. Extract bio data, social handles, and location from author profile pages.
Capture AP's internal categorisation structure. Map articles to specific beats, regions, and ongoing story threads.
Identify original AP reporting versus aggregated or syndicated content from partner networks.
Run bulk historical exports or configure continuous pipelines at minute-level cadences for breaking news.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide category URLs, topic tags, author pages, or search parameters. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and rate-limit handling for apnews.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, missing-text detection, and sample payloads before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News sites use aggressive caching and edge protection to manage traffic spikes. Here's how we maintain a reliable feed.
News publishers utilise Cloudflare and Fastly to mitigate scraping. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and TLS configurations to bypass edge challenges without triggering blocks.
Live blogs and election results rely on client-side hydration and XHR polling. We run full Playwright browser sessions to execute JavaScript, triggering continuous feed updates and capturing data that static HTML parsers miss.
AP News employs distinct DOM structures for standard articles, photo essays, and interactive features. We maintain layout-specific fallback chains to ensure consistent text extraction regardless of the presentation format.
Breaking news is updated continuously. We maintain hash indexes of article body text. Subsequent runs emit diffs when an article is revised, providing a complete audit trail of editorial changes.
Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on feed staleness, null-rate spikes, and layout drift. SLA uptime is contractual, ensuring you never miss a breaking wire.
PR firms and corporate communication teams track brand mentions and public sentiment across global wire syndications.
Machine learning teams ingest high-quality, editorially rigorous journalistic text to fine-tune language models and RAG systems.
Academic researchers and trust-and-safety teams utilise the AP Fact Check corpus to train automated claim verification models.
Quantitative hedge funds parse breaking news headlines and political developments for macroeconomic signal extraction.
Think tanks monitor election results, legislative coverage, and global summit reporting to track policy shifts.
Publishers and copyright monitors track how AP content propagates across secondary media outlets.
"AP News remains the definitive global wire service. Structuring its continuous feed of breaking news and factual reporting is foundational for modern intelligence platforms."
Extracting wire services requires millisecond precision. We handle the infrastructure—Cloudflare mitigation, dynamic live blog rendering, and continuous diff generation—so your engineering team can focus on natural language processing and signal extraction rather than maintaining scrapers.
Everything supported by our apnews.com 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, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across US and EU regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About apnews.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles is generally permissible under applicable law, often falling under fair use for research, analysis, and indexing. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated text and metadata. We do not extract gated commercial assets or violate GDPR. Clients should review publisher ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
We use residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. Our selectors have multi-layer fallback chains so DOM changes don't break the pipeline. We monitor for rate-limit spikes in real time.
Yes. We configure specific pipelines to poll live blog XHR endpoints at high frequency, capturing timestamped updates, author attributions, and media attachments as they are published.
Real-time streaming pipelines achieve sub-5-minute latency for designated breaking news feeds. Full historical category refreshes at daily cadence complete within a 2-4 hour window depending on depth.
Yes. We parse the specific structured formats used in AP Fact Check articles, isolating the original claim, the official AP rating (e.g., False, Missing Context), and the detailed explanation.
Our smallest packages start at defined topic feeds or author lists with daily delivery. For full historical archives or sub-minute streaming requirements, we price based on compute volume and delivery frequency.
Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 articles or specific live blog histories as part of the pre-engagement scoping process — so you can validate schema fit, field completeness, and data quality.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need historical fact-check archives or a real-time breaking news feed — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
