We extract full text articles, author metadata, category tagging, and financial updates from Khaleej Times. 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 News Articles objects from khaleejtimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.khaleejtimes.com/business/corporate/new-dubai-company-laws", "headline": "Dubai announces updated corporate tax guidelines for free zones", "author": "Sarah Jones", "publish_date": "2023-11-14T08:30:00Z", "category": "Business", "tags": "['Corporate Tax', 'Dubai Free Zones', 'Economy']", "content_text": "The Ministry of Finance has issued new guidelines clarifying the corporate tax framework..."
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Complete list of extractable fields for Financial Updates objects from khaleejtimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"asset_type": "Gold", "asset_name": "24K", "price": 245.5, "currency": "AED", "change_pct": 0.45, "timestamp": "2023-11-14T09:00:00Z", "market_status": "Open"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from khaleejtimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "sarah-jones-142", "name": "Sarah Jones", "profile_url": "https://www.khaleejtimes.com/author/sarah-jones", "bio": "Senior Business Reporter covering UAE corporate regulations and macroeconomics.", "article_count": 842, "twitter_handle": "@sarahjones_kt"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Opinion Pieces objects from khaleejtimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.khaleejtimes.com/opinion/future-of-ai-in-uae", "headline": "Why the UAE is leading the global AI race", "author": "Dr. Ahmed Al Mansoori", "publish_date": "2023-11-13T10:15:00Z", "topic": "Technology", "word_count": 1240
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Complete list of extractable fields for Multimedia Galleries objects from khaleejtimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.khaleejtimes.com/galleries/dubai-airshow-highlights", "title": "Dubai Airshow 2023: Best moments", "image_count": 15, "photographer": "Rahul Gajjar", "publish_date": "2023-11-12T14:00:00Z", "category": "Events"
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Our scraper extracts complete editorial content, financial widgets, and historical archives with full metadata preservation and pagination handling.
Clean, normalised article text stripped of ads, navigation elements, and boilerplate HTML.
Extract author names, publish dates, update timestamps, categories, and editorial tags per article.
Capture daily gold rates, forex updates, and market indices embedded in the Khaleej Times financial section.
Crawl archive pages to extract historical news data spanning years of publication.
Map author profiles, bios, social handles, and historical article counts across the platform.
Poll specific categories or RSS feeds to deliver breaking news articles within minutes of publication.
Capture high resolution image URLs, video embed links, and associated captions from gallery pages.
Filter and extract news specific to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, and other emirates.
Run continuous pipelines at hourly or daily cadences to maintain an up to date news corpus.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target categories, author URLs, or date ranges. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, handle infinite scroll pagination, and normalise date formats.
Schema validation, null rate checks, and text cleanliness verification before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News sites rely on CDN caching and dynamic content injection. Here is how we ensure data completeness.
News platforms use aggressive CDN caching. We append cache busting parameters and monitor RSS endpoints to ensure breaking news is captured immediately, rather than waiting for CDN propagation.
Category pages often use infinite scroll rather than standard pagination. Our Playwright instances simulate scroll events and intercept XHR requests to capture the complete article list without missing entries.
Publish dates appear in various formats across different sections. We parse relative times and inconsistent strings into a strict ISO 8601 format, ensuring your time series analysis remains accurate.
Editorial layouts change frequently for special events or sponsored content. We use structural text extraction and fallback CSS selectors to maintain clean text output regardless of presentation layer changes.
We automatically detect KT Premium articles. Instead of delivering truncated text, we flag the record as gated, allowing you to filter out incomplete data from your natural language processing pipelines.
PR agencies and corporate communications teams track brand mentions and executive quotes across UAE publications.
Financial analysts process editorial tone and opinion pieces to gauge market sentiment regarding regional economic policies.
Traders monitor the daily gold and forex rate widgets to trigger automated alerts and update local pricing models.
Businesses track competitor announcements, project launches, and executive movements reported in local business sections.
Data science teams ingest clean, categorised article text to train regional language models and classification algorithms.
Researchers analyse article tagging frequency over time to identify emerging social and commercial trends in the UAE.
"Khaleej Times holds the definitive record of UAE commercial and social developments, but extracting clean text from its dynamic DOM requires dedicated infrastructure."
Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable news scraping requires bypassing CDN caching, handling infinite scroll pagination, normalising inconsistent date formats, and monitoring anomaly spikes. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on NLP and analysis.
Everything supported by our khaleejtimes.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 infinite scroll pagination and dynamic widget rendering.
We maintain pools of proxies to distribute requests, preventing rate limiting and ensuring consistent access to regional content.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About khaleejtimes.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles is generally permissible for analysis purposes. DataFlirt targets only public, non authenticated editorial and financial data. We do not extract personal data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
Real time streaming pipelines achieve sub 15 minute latency for breaking news on specified category pages. Full daily archives run on a scheduled 24 hour cadence.
Yes. We can configure backfill jobs to extract historical articles spanning several years, provided the content remains accessible on the platform.
We extract the URLs for high resolution images and video embeds, along with their associated captions and metadata. We do not download the media files directly to your warehouse.
Our smallest packages start at daily extraction of specific categories. For full historical backfills or custom NLP pipelines, we price based on compute volume. Contact us for a scoped quote.
Yes. We provide a sample run of recent articles as part of the scoping process so you can validate text cleanliness and schema fit before committing.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical archive dump or a continuous news feed — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
