We extract full text articles, regional headlines, author metadata, and video links from Globalnews.ca. 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 globalnews.ca. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/1234567/example-article", "headline": "Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady", "author": "Jane Doe", "published_date": "2026-05-12T14:30:00Z", "category": "Money", "region": "National", "tags": "['Bank of Canada', 'Economy', 'Interest Rates']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from globalnews.ca. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "jane-doe", "name": "Jane Doe", "twitter_handle": "@janedoe_gn", "article_count": 412, "latest_article_url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/1234567/example-article", "profile_image": "https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/jane-doe.jpg"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Video Content objects from globalnews.ca. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"video_id": "v-9876543", "title": "Prime Minister addresses the nation", "duration": "00:04:15", "embed_url": "https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/9876543/", "published_date": "2026-05-12T15:00:00Z", "related_article_url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/1234567/example-article"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Regional Frontpages objects from globalnews.ca. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"region_name": "Toronto", "top_story_headline": "Major transit delays hit downtown core", "breaking_news_banner": true, "weather_summary": "15C Partly Cloudy", "scraped_at": "2026-05-12T09:00:00Z", "layout_position": 1
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from globalnews.ca. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"keyword": "housing market", "page_number": 1, "result_position": 3, "article_url": "https://globalnews.ca/news/7654321/housing-market-update", "headline": "Housing market sees slight cooling in April", "date_published": "2026-05-11T10:15:00Z"
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Our extraction pipeline targets the core editorial content: full text articles, video metadata, regional frontpages, and author directories. Built to handle dynamic ad injection and pagination.
Extract clean article body text stripped of inline advertisements, related article widgets, and newsletter signup forms.
Capture frontpage headlines across all 21 local Global News regions including Toronto, BC, Alberta, and Halifax.
Extract video embed URLs, durations, thumbnails, and descriptions from inline players and dedicated video pages.
Track journalist output by extracting author bios, social handles, and historical article lists.
Standardise published and updated timestamps into UTC format for accurate chronological sorting.
Extract internal category assignments and editorial tags to map content themes.
Monitor active breaking news alerts and live blog updates across the network.
Automate searches for specific keywords and extract paginated results to build historical event datasets.
Run pipelines at hourly intervals to capture new publications and detect headline changes on existing articles.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target categories, regions, or author profiles. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, handle regional cookie routing, and map the article DOM structure.
Schema validation, null rate checks, and text cleanliness verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News sites deploy aggressive caching and dynamic layouts. Here is how we maintain data quality.
News articles are filled with inline ads, related story links, and social embeds. Our parsers isolate the core editorial DOM nodes, delivering clean, continuous text suitable for NLP training.
Globalnews.ca serves different content based on regional cookies. We maintain separate crawler sessions with specific region cookies to capture local headlines accurately.
Historical archives often rely on infinite scroll or complex API pagination. We reverse engineer the underlying GraphQL or REST endpoints to extract historical data efficiently.
Video metadata is often loaded asynchronously via JavaScript. We use Playwright to execute player hydration, capturing the raw m3u8 streams and metadata JSON.
Editors frequently update headlines and article bodies after publication. We hash content per run and emit diffs, allowing you to track editorial changes over time.
PR firms and corporate communications teams track brand mentions, sentiment, and regional coverage velocity.
AI teams use clean, categorised article bodies to train language models on Canadian English and regional dialects.
Quantitative funds parse breaking news headlines and economic reporting to trigger algorithmic trading strategies.
Researchers track policy announcements, election coverage, and political sentiment across different Canadian provinces.
Other media organisations monitor publication frequency, author output, and category focus to benchmark editorial strategy.
Universities compile historical datasets of news coverage to study media bias, topic prevalence, and crisis reporting.
"Globalnews.ca holds decades of Canadian political and regional reporting, but turning unstructured HTML into queryable NLP datasets requires dedicated infrastructure."
Most teams underestimate the complexity of news scraping. Handling dynamic regional routing, extracting clean text from ad heavy article layouts, and resolving video metadata requires continuous selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs this operational load so your data science team can focus on training models.
Everything supported by our globalnews.ca 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 broad crawling and archive traversal. Playwright manages JavaScript execution for video players and dynamic content loading.
We route requests through Canadian residential IPs to ensure accurate regional content delivery and avoid CDN rate limits.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow manages scheduling for hourly news sweeps and daily archive jobs.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About globalnews.ca scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles is generally permissible. However, redistributing full text articles may implicate copyright law. Our clients typically use the data for internal NLP training, sentiment analysis, or metadata indexing. Clients must ensure their specific use case complies with copyright regulations and Globalnews.ca terms of service.
Yes. We can traverse category pagination and search archives to extract historical articles dating back to the limits of the site structure.
We configure separate crawler runs using location specific cookies and residential proxies to capture the exact frontpage layout and articles for each of the 21 regional editions.
We extract video metadata, descriptions, durations, and direct embed URLs. We do not download or host the actual .mp4 video files.
For active pipelines, we can poll RSS feeds, sitemaps, and frontpages at 15 minute intervals to capture breaking news near real time.
Yes. We maintain a hash of the article body and headline. If an editor updates the story, we emit a new record with the updated timestamp and content diff.
We typically start with a defined historical backfill and a continuous forward looking pipeline. Contact us with your volume requirements for a precise quote.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a full historical archive extraction or a real time feed of Canadian headlines, we build and operate the pipeline. Tell us your requirements.
