SYSTEM all green source clarin.com queue 12,491 URLs p99 latency 185ms dataflirt.com · scraper/clarin-com
RUN * 42 active pipelines * clarin.com live

Clarin news data,
delivered at scale.

We extract full article text, metadata, author profiles, and comment threads from clarin.com. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Articles extracted
34.2K /day
Author profiles
1.2K /run
Comment records
145K /24h
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from clarin.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Article Data objects from clarin.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

urlheadlinesubheadlineauthorpublish_dateupdate_datesectiontagsbody_textimage_urlspaywall_status
article_data
● 200 OK
"url": "https://www.clarin.com/politica/example-article.html",
"headline": "New economic measures announced",
"author": "Juan Perez",
"publish_date": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z",
"section": "Politica",
"paywall_status": "free"
# urlheadlinesubheadlineauthorpublish_dateupdate_date
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Complete list of extractable fields for Author Profiles objects from clarin.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

author_idnamebiotwitter_handlerolearticle_countlatest_article_urlprofile_image_url
author_profiles
● 200 OK
"author_id": "jperez_123",
"name": "Juan Perez",
"twitter_handle": "@jperez_news",
"role": "Senior Editor",
"article_count": 452,
"latest_article_url": "https://www.clarin.com/politica/example-article.html"
# author_idnamebiotwitter_handlerolearticle_count
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Complete list of extractable fields for Comments objects from clarin.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

comment_idarticle_iduser_nameuser_idcomment_texttimestampupvotesdownvotesreplies_count
comments
● 200 OK
"comment_id": "c_98765",
"user_name": "lector_fiel",
"comment_text": "This policy will have significant impact.",
"timestamp": "2026-05-12T10:05:00Z",
"upvotes": 34,
"replies_count": 2
# comment_idarticle_iduser_nameuser_idcomment_texttimestamp
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Complete list of extractable fields for Homepage & Sections objects from clarin.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

section_namepositionheadlineurlis_breakingscrape_timestamprelated_linksimage_url
homepage_& sections
● 200 OK
"section_name": "Ultimo Momento",
"position": 1,
"headline": "Breaking: Market opens higher",
"url": "https://www.clarin.com/economia/market-open.html",
"is_breaking": true,
"scrape_timestamp": "2026-05-12T09:14:33Z"
# section_namepositionheadlineurlis_breakingscrape_timestamp
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from clarin.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

keywordpositionheadlineurlpublish_datesnippetauthorsection
search_results
● 200 OK
"keyword": "inflation rate",
"position": 1,
"headline": "Central bank releases inflation data",
"url": "https://www.clarin.com/economia/inflation.html",
"publish_date": "2026-05-11",
"section": "Economia"
# keywordpositionheadlineurlpublish_datesnippet
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Clarin - nothing you don't

Our Clarin scraper handles every layer of the publication: breaking news alerts, deep article archives, author profiles, and comment sections - with JavaScript rendering and soft paywall circumvention built in.

Full Article Extraction

Headline, subheadline, body text, tags, and embedded media links extracted cleanly without ads or boilerplate.

Ultimo Momento Tracking

Real-time polling of the breaking news feed to capture headlines the second they are published.

Author Intelligence

Extract author bios, social handles, and historical article lists to track journalist focus areas.

Comment Thread Mining

Capture reader sentiment, upvotes, and nested replies across popular articles via dynamic rendering.

Historical Archive Access

Navigate Clarin's sitemaps and search functions to build comprehensive datasets spanning years.

Section Hierarchies

Track placement and prominence of articles across Politica, Economia, Deportes, and other key sections.

Headline Diffing

Monitor changes to headlines and subheadlines over time to track editorial shifts.

Soft Paywall Handling

Automated session clearing and IP rotation to access standard metered articles reliably.

Scheduled Deliveries

Run continuous pipelines at minute-level cadences for breaking news or daily for archival dumps.

// engagement pipeline

From URLs to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target sections, keywords, or historical date ranges. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, session management, and DOM parsing logic for clarin.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and text formatting verification before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

How our Clarin pipeline handles the hard parts

News sites employ strict caching, dynamic loading, and paywalls. Here is how we stay resilient.

pipeline-monitor · clarin.com · 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
Paywall layer
Session management and IP rotation

Clarin employs soft paywalls based on article counts. Our crawlers use residential proxies and automated cookie clearing to ensure uninterrupted access to standard articles without triggering account blocks.

Dynamic content
Playwright execution for comments

Comment sections and certain embedded media require JavaScript to load. We run full browser sessions to trigger lazy-loaded elements and capture the complete reader discourse.

Layout variability
Resilient selectors for multiple templates

Opinion pieces, breaking news, and standard articles use different DOM structures. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains to ensure consistent text extraction across all formats.

Real-time updates
Diffing for editorial changes

News stories evolve. We maintain a hash index of last-seen values per article. Subsequent runs push diffs, capturing headline tweaks and text updates without redundant data.

Monitoring
24/7 pipeline health

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes or schema drift if Clarin deploys a major site redesign.

Applications

Who uses Clarin data - and how

Teams across industries use clarin.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
Media Monitoring

PR firms and brands track mentions, sentiment, and narrative development across top-tier Argentine media.

02
NLP Training

Machine learning teams use high-quality Spanish editorial text to train language models and classifiers.

03
Financial Signals

Quantitative funds extract macroeconomic news and policy announcements to inform trading algorithms.

04
Academic Research

Universities analyse historical archives for political science and sociological studies on public discourse.

05
Sentiment Analysis

Analysts mine comment threads to gauge public reaction to government policies and corporate announcements.

06
Competitor Intelligence

Rival publications track article velocity, section prominence, and author output.

Why DataFlirt

"Clarin holds the definitive record of Argentine public discourse and breaking news, but analysing it requires transforming unstructured HTML into machine-readable text corpora."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable news scraping requires handling soft paywalls, dynamic comment loading, continuous layout shifts, and real-time polling. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis, not the infrastructure.

Technical Spec

Clarin scraper - technical capabilities

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

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions for comments and dynamic embeds
Supported
Article text extraction
Clean body text stripped of ads and navigation elements
Supported
Soft paywall bypass
Automated cookie clearing and proxy rotation for metered articles
Supported
Comment thread pagination
Extraction of all nested replies and upvote metrics
Supported
Historical archive access
Deep crawling of sitemaps and date-based search results
Supported
Real-time breaking news polling
Sub-minute checks on Ultimo Momento feeds
Supported
Clarin 365 Premium exclusive content
Hard-paywalled articles requiring paid user credentials
Partial
User account private reading history
Data tied to individual authenticated user profiles
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Clarin 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 and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering for comments and dynamic content.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to bypass rate limits and metered paywalls.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.

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
Standard spreadsheet format for business analysts
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
RESTful endpoints to query extracted datasets
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
S3
Direct bucket delivery — compatible with any data lake
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Common questions.

About clarin.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Clarin legal?

Scraping publicly available information is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated news articles, author data, and public comments. We do not circumvent hard paywalls requiring paid subscriptions (Clarin 365). Clients should review terms of service and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you handle Clarin paywalls?

We bypass soft, metered paywalls by rotating residential IP addresses and clearing cookies per session, simulating new anonymous readers. We do not access hard-paywalled Premium content.

Can you extract historical archives?

Yes. We can traverse Clarin's sitemaps and search pagination to extract articles dating back years, depending on your required scope.

How fast can you detect breaking news?

For sections like Ultimo Momento, we can configure pipelines to poll at sub-minute intervals and deliver updates via Webhook instantly.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at defined section monitoring or historical dumps of up to 50,000 articles. Contact us for a scoped quote based on volume.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 articles as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=clarin.com 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 or a continuous breaking news feed - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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