We extract breaking news, opinion pieces, video metadata, author archives, and comment sections from Fox News. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake.
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 foxnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sample-article", "title": "Senate passes new infrastructure spending bill", "author": "John Doe", "publish_date": "2026-10-12T14:30:00Z", "category": "Politics", "body_text": "The Senate voted 51-49 on Thursday to advance...", "tags": "['Senate', 'Infrastructure', 'Congress']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from foxnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"name": "Jane Smith", "role": "Senior Congressional Correspondent", "bio": "Jane Smith covers Capitol Hill and national campaigns...", "twitter_handle": "@janesmithfox", "article_count": 412, "profile_image_url": "https://a57.foxnews.com/sample.jpg"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Video Metadata objects from foxnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"video_id": "8934719283", "title": "Panel discusses upcoming midterm elections", "duration": "08:45", "publish_date": "2026-10-12T15:00:00Z", "show_name": "Special Report", "transcript_available": true
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Complete list of extractable fields for Comments objects from foxnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"comment_id": "ow_9823471", "user_name": "PatriotEagle99", "comment_text": "This policy will increase inflation further.", "timestamp": "2026-10-12T16:20:00Z", "upvotes": 142, "replies_count": 12
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from foxnews.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"keyword": "inflation rate", "result_position": 1, "title": "Federal Reserve indicates potential rate pause", "url": "https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/sample", "snippet": "Central bank officials signalled a shift in strategy...", "publish_date": "2026-10-11T09:15:00Z"
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Our pipeline handles dynamic layouts, OpenWeb comment iframes, and aggressive CDN caching to deliver clean, normalised editorial data.
Body text, subheadings, inline quotes, and image captions scraped cleanly without ad-injection artifacts.
Bios, roles, and historical article corpus per author across standard reporting and opinion columns.
Titles, show associations, durations, and closed caption text extracted from Fox News media players.
OpenWeb iframe extraction captures user names, upvotes, downvotes, and nested reply threads.
Market news, ticker mentions, and financial opinion pieces extracted from the Fox Business subdomain.
Sub-minute polling on homepage and category feeds for immediate event detection and alerting.
Extract structural metadata, topic tags, and category hierarchy for accurate topic modelling.
Identify and separate editorial and opinion content from standard reporting based on page metadata.
Crawl paginated category archives and sitemaps dating back years to build comprehensive NLP datasets.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target categories, author lists, or keyword sets. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and JS rendering for OpenWeb comment sections.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and text-encoding verification before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News publishers deploy strict caching and dynamic rendering. Here is how we bypass the noise to extract raw text.
Fox News uses edge networks that block aggressive datacenter IPs. We distribute requests across residential proxies with TLS fingerprinting to ensure continuous access without rate limits.
Comment sections are loaded via OpenWeb JavaScript applications. We run headless Playwright browsers to execute the JS, trigger lazy-loading, and extract the full comment hierarchy.
Live blogs, video-only pages, and standard articles use different DOM structures. Our fallback selectors normalise text extraction across all template variations.
Category pages and search results rely on React-based infinite scrolling. We intercept underlying API calls or simulate user scrolling to capture the complete historical feed.
For ongoing events, we maintain state on previously extracted paragraphs. Subsequent runs only extract and deliver new timestamped updates, reducing data duplication.
Track brand mentions and executive coverage across hard news and opinion pieces to measure public relations impact.
Analyse comment sections and opinion columns to gauge audience reaction to specific policies or market events.
Build domain-specific language models using high-quality editorial text spanning politics, business, and culture.
Track coverage volume and narrative framing on legislative topics to understand media influence on public opinion.
Correlate Fox Business reporting and ticker mentions with market movements for quantitative trading signals.
Rival media organisations track output volume, author performance, and topic engagement metrics.
"Fox News produces a massive daily corpus of political, financial, and cultural text - but extracting it cleanly requires navigating complex dynamic layouts and strict bot mitigation."
Media scraping requires more than simple HTTP requests. Fox News utilises dynamic ad-injection, third-party comment iframes, and aggressive CDN caching. DataFlirt manages the proxy rotation, JavaScript execution, and schema maintenance so your data science teams receive normalised text, not broken HTML.
Everything supported by our foxnews.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 and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering for comment iframes and media players.
We bypass CDN blocks with rotating ISP proxies, ensuring continuous access without triggering bot protection mechanisms.
Airflow and AWS Lambda handle scalable text processing, scheduling, and delivery of large editorial datasets.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About foxnews.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available text from Fox News is generally permissible under fair use and applicable web scraping laws. DataFlirt targets only public articles, comments, and metadata. We do not bypass DRM or extract gated Fox Nation content. Clients should consult legal counsel regarding their specific NLP or commercial use cases.
Fox News uses third-party providers like OpenWeb for comments. We use headless Playwright browsers to execute the necessary JavaScript, trigger the iframe load, and extract the full hierarchy of comments, replies, upvotes, and usernames.
We extract video metadata, titles, descriptions, and available closed caption transcripts. We do not download or deliver the actual MP4 or HLS video streams.
Our real-time pipelines poll RSS feeds, sitemaps, and the homepage at sub-minute intervals. We can push alerts via Webhook the moment a new URL matching your keyword criteria is published.
Yes. Our pipeline supports the main foxnews.com domain as well as foxbusiness.com, normalising the data into a single consistent schema.
We can extract historical articles dating back years by traversing site archives and sitemaps. The exact timeframe depends on the availability of the content on the live site.
Live blogs update frequently during major events. We maintain a hash of previously extracted blocks and only emit new timestamped entries during subsequent pipeline runs, providing a clean changelog.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. From historical article archives to real-time comment streams - we build and operate the extraction infrastructure. Tell us your data requirements.
