We extract articles, live blog updates, video metadata, and financial reports from NDTV. 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 ndtv.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_id": "ndtv-news-849201", "url": "https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/example-article", "headline": "Central Bank Announces New Interest Rate Policy", "author": "NDTV News Desk", "publish_date": "2026-05-12T09:14:00Z", "category": "India News", "tags": "['Economy', 'RBI', 'Interest Rates']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Live Blogs objects from ndtv.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"event_id": "live-blog-election-2026", "event_title": "Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates", "update_timestamp": "2026-05-12T10:45:22Z", "update_text": "Voting concludes in 45 constituencies with a 68% voter turnout.", "author": "Political Desk", "is_pinned": false
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Complete list of extractable fields for NDTV Profit objects from ndtv.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"ticker": "RELIANCE.NS", "company_name": "Reliance Industries Ltd", "current_price": 2845.5, "currency": "INR", "change_pct": 1.24, "volume": 4582910, "timestamp": "2026-05-12T15:30:00Z"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Video Metadata objects from ndtv.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"video_id": "vid-99382", "title": "Prime Time: Analyzing The New Policy Shifts", "duration_seconds": 2450, "publish_date": "2026-05-11T21:00:00Z", "show_name": "Prime Time", "category": "Shows"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Author Profiles objects from ndtv.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "auth-102", "name": "Sunil Prabhu", "twitter_handle": "@SunilPrabhuNDTV", "article_count": 1420, "topics_covered": "['Politics', 'Parliament', 'Supreme Court']", "recent_articles": "['url1', 'url2', 'url3']"
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Our NDTV scraper handles infinite scroll, dynamic live blogs, and fragmented subdomains. We extract clean text and metadata across news, sports, and financial verticals without ad-bloat.
Headline, subheadline, author, publish date, update timestamp, and full content body stripped of inline advertisements and tracking scripts.
Capture real-time updates from election coverage, sports matches, and breaking news events with precise timestamps per update.
Extract market updates, stock ticker mentions, corporate earnings reports, and financial opinion pieces from the Profit subdomain.
Map journalists to their coverage areas, track publication frequency, and extract biographical metadata from author profile pages.
Extract and normalise UTF-8 encoded text from NDTV India (Hindi), NDTV Khabar, and other regional language subdomains.
Parse live scorecards, match reports, player statistics, and tournament standings from the sports subdomain.
Preserve NDTV's internal taxonomy by capturing all assigned tags, breadcrumbs, and category classifications per article.
Extract structured constituency results, candidate profiles, and historical vote-share data during state and general elections.
Run one-off historical archive exports or configure continuous pipelines at hourly, daily, or real-time cadences.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target subdomains, category URLs, or date ranges. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and infinite-scroll handling for ndtv.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, encoding verification, and ad-stripping tests before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News sites present unique extraction challenges: aggressive caching, anti-scraping firewalls, and rapidly mutating DOM structures during breaking news.
NDTV operates multiple subdomains (profit.ndtv.com, sports.ndtv.com, movies.ndtv.com) with entirely different DOM structures. We maintain distinct selector chains per subdomain while delivering data into a single, normalised schema.
Live blogs load via asynchronous background requests rather than static HTML. We intercept these XHR/fetch requests directly, capturing raw JSON payloads to ensure zero missed updates during high-velocity news events.
Media sites inject programmatic ads, outbrain widgets, and sponsored links directly into the article body. Our pipeline uses structural heuristics to identify and strip non-editorial content, delivering clean, machine-readable text.
Extracting Hindi or regional content requires strict encoding management. We enforce UTF-8 normalisation across the entire pipeline to prevent character corruption in downstream NLP models.
Akamai and Cloudflare protect NDTV from volumetric scraping. We distribute requests across premium residential IP pools, managing request headers and session cookies to blend in with legitimate reader traffic.
AI teams ingest decades of high-quality Indian journalistic text to train foundational models and regional language classifiers.
Quantitative funds correlate NDTV Profit news mentions and executive interviews with stock price movements to build trading signals.
Agencies track brand mentions, executive quotes, and crisis coverage across the entire NDTV network in real time.
Researchers and think tanks analyse election coverage, live blog transcripts, and opinion pieces to model political sentiment.
Media conglomerates monitor NDTV's publishing velocity, topic distribution, and author output to benchmark their own newsrooms.
Academic institutions build datasets of verified news reports to train misinformation-detection algorithms.
"NDTV represents decades of Indian geopolitical, financial, and cultural history — but extracting it requires navigating a labyrinth of subdomains and legacy DOM structures."
Most teams underestimate the investment required to scrape legacy news media: reliable NDTV extraction requires handling infinite scroll pagination, parsing irregular live-blog websockets, stripping aggressive ad-network injections, and normalising regional text encodings. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis — not the infrastructure.
Everything supported by our ndtv.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 infinite scroll, lazy-loading images, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across IN 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 ndtv.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles and metadata from NDTV is generally permissible for analysis and research, provided it does not violate copyright law via wholesale republication. DataFlirt extracts factual data and text for internal analytics, NLP training, and monitoring. We do not bypass authentication walls. Clients must ensure their downstream use complies with fair use doctrines and copyright laws.
NDTV's architecture spans multiple subdomains (profit, sports, movies, food). We deploy subdomain-specific parsing logic while mapping all extracted fields to a unified, master schema for seamless downstream ingestion.
Yes. For breaking news and election coverage, we can configure high-frequency polling pipelines that capture live blog updates within seconds of publication, delivered via webhook.
Yes. We extract market updates, stock ticker mentions, corporate earnings reports, and financial commentary from the NDTV Profit subdomain.
Yes. We can traverse category pagination and date-based archives to extract historical news data spanning several years, subject to URL availability.
Our pipeline enforces strict UTF-8 encoding across all stages of extraction, storage, and delivery, ensuring regional scripts like Hindi and Bengali remain intact without character corruption.
We use DOM structural analysis and heuristic rules to identify non-editorial elements — such as Outbrain widgets, inline advertisements, and newsletter signups — stripping them before delivering the final content body.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off historical news archive or a continuous live-blog monitoring feed — we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
