We extract breaking news, regional articles, live blogs, author archives, and election coverage from News18. 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 news18.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.news18.com/politics/example-article", "headline": "Election Commission announces polling dates", "author": "Political Desk", "pub_date": "2026-03-14T10:30:00Z", "category": "Politics", "tags": "['Elections', 'ECI', 'Polling']", "image_url": "https://images.news18.com/example.jpg"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Live Blogs objects from news18.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.news18.com/sports/cricket-live-blog", "event_title": "India vs Australia Test Match", "update_id": "update_482", "timestamp": "2026-03-14T11:45:12Z", "content": "Kohli hits a boundary through the covers.", "status": "LIVE"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from news18.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"author_id": "auth_891", "name": "Aman Sharma", "profile_url": "https://www.news18.com/byline/aman-sharma.html", "twitter_handle": "@AmanKSharma", "article_count": 1452, "latest_article_date": "2026-03-13T18:20:00Z"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Regional News objects from news18.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://bengali.news18.com/news/example", "language": "Bengali", "region": "West Bengal", "headline": "Local festival begins today", "pub_date": "2026-03-14T08:15:00Z", "category": "Local"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Election Data objects from news18.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"constituency": "Varanasi", "state": "Uttar Pradesh", "candidate_name": "Narendra Modi", "party": "BJP", "status": "Leading", "last_updated": "2026-05-23T14:10:00Z"
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Our News18 scraper handles complex DOM structures across multiple regional subdomains, infinite scrolls, and live blog AJAX requests to deliver clean text.
Headlines, subheadlines, author bylines, timestamps, and body text stripped of ads and tracking scripts.
Continuous polling of live news events, capturing individual updates, timestamps, and embedded media.
Extract data from bengali.news18.com, hindi.news18.com, and other vernacular editions with correct UTF-8 encoding.
Crawl author profile pages to build historical datasets of specific journalists and their publication history.
Extract structured polling data, candidate margins, and constituency results during election cycles.
Parse live sports widgets to extract ball-by-ball commentary, player statistics, and match summaries.
Map the relationship between articles using News18 internal taxonomy and topic tags.
Convert relative times into absolute ISO 8601 timestamps for accurate time-series analysis.
Execute JavaScript to trigger infinite scroll events and capture older articles from category feeds.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide categories, author names, or keyword sets. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, proxy rotation, and pagination logic for news18.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and text encoding verification before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
News publishers deploy dynamic layouts and CDN bot protection. Here is how we maintain data quality.
News18 category pages use infinite scrolling rather than traditional pagination. We run Playwright to simulate user scrolling, intercepting the underlying XHR requests to extract historical articles efficiently.
Scraping Hindi, Tamil, or Bengali subdomains requires strict UTF-8 handling. Our pipelines normalise character encoding to prevent garbled text in your database.
For breaking news and sports, we target the specific JSON endpoints powering the live blog widgets, allowing sub-minute latency without downloading full HTML payloads.
News articles are heavily fragmented by injected advertisements and sponsored content. Our DOM parsers specifically target article body containers, stripping out irrelevant inline scripts and ad blocks.
News18 uses CDN-level bot protection. We route requests through Indian residential proxies with realistic browser headers to maintain access during high-volume crawls.
PR agencies and corporate comms teams track brand mentions, sentiment, and crisis escalation in real time.
Analysts monitor regional sentiment, election coverage, and political discourse across multiple vernacular languages.
Machine learning teams use the vast corpus of regional and English text to train translation and summarisation models.
Financial institutions parse breaking news and live blogs to detect macroeconomic events and corporate announcements.
Digital publishers track News18 publication velocity, topic coverage, and author output to inform editorial strategy.
Aggregators extract live cricket scorecards and commentary for downstream applications.
"News18 publishes thousands of articles daily across 15 languages. Extracting this corpus requires infrastructure that handles infinite scrolls and dynamic layouts."
Media monitoring requires absolute precision and low latency. Scraping News18 at scale involves bypassing CDN bot protection, normalising timestamps across regional subdomains, and parsing unstructured HTML into clean text. DataFlirt manages this pipeline entirely.
Everything supported by our news18.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 sitemap discovery and crawl orchestration. Playwright executes JavaScript for infinite scrolls and dynamic content loading.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across India to bypass regional blocks and CDN rate limits.
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 news18.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles is generally permissible for analysis and monitoring. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated editorial content. We do not extract personal user data or bypass paywalls. Clients must ensure their downstream use respects copyright law and fair use provisions.
Yes. We support all News18 regional subdomains. Our pipelines ensure correct UTF-8 encoding so vernacular text is stored accurately without character corruption.
For specified live events, we configure high-frequency polling pipelines that capture updates within 60 seconds of publication.
Yes. We can traverse News18 sitemaps and category archives to extract historical data spanning multiple years.
We use Playwright to simulate browser scrolling or directly target the backend AJAX endpoints that serve the paginated content.
Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 1,000 articles to validate schema fit and text cleanliness before signing a contract.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical archive dump or a continuous live news feed across 15 languages, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
