We extract breaking news, business reports, geopolitical commentary, and author profiles from straitstimes.com. 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 Article Content objects from straitstimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/example-article", "headline": "Monetary Authority of Singapore tightens policy", "author": "Chua Mui Hoong", "published_date": "2026-04-12T08:30:00Z", "category": "Business", "body_text": "The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced today...", "paywalled": false
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Complete list of extractable fields for Author Profiles objects from straitstimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"name": "Chua Mui Hoong", "role": "Senior Columnist", "bio": "Chua Mui Hoong writes on Singapore politics and society.", "twitter_handle": "@chuamuihoong_st", "article_count": 412, "beat": "Politics", "email_contact": "muihoong@sph.com.sg"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Business & Financial News objects from straitstimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"headline": "DBS reports record Q3 earnings", "companies_mentioned": "['DBS Group Holdings', 'OCBC Bank']", "stock_tickers": "['SGX:D05', 'SGX:O39']", "region": "Singapore", "published_date": "2026-05-10T14:00:00Z", "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/business/dbs-q3-earnings"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Multimedia & Assets objects from straitstimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"asset_id": "IMG_849201", "asset_type": "image/jpeg", "url": "https://static1.straitstimes.com.sg/s3fs-public/example.jpg", "caption": "Prime Minister speaking at the National Day Rally.", "photographer": "Kevin Lim", "agency": "The Straits Times", "resolution": "1920x1080"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Category Aggregation objects from straitstimes.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"category_name": "Asia", "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/asia", "top_story_headline": "Asean summit concludes with new trade agreements", "article_count_24h": 142, "editor_picks": "['article_id_1', 'article_id_2']", "last_updated": "2026-05-12T09:15:00Z"
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Our media scraper handles every layer of the platform: breaking news feeds, historical archives, author metadata, and financial entity extraction, with JavaScript rendering and session management built in.
Headline, body, subheadline, and inline quotes captured accurately, bypassing lazy-loaded paragraphs and dynamic ad insertions.
Extract bios, social handles, email contacts, and historical article lists for every credited journalist.
Preserve the site taxonomy across Singapore, Asia, World, Business, and Tech categories for structured NLP training.
Extract high-resolution image URLs, captions, and photographer credits embedded within the article body.
Isolate mentioned stock tickers, corporate entities, and executive names from business and financial reporting.
Track country mentions and regional focus across Southeast Asia coverage for risk analysis models.
Paginate through past months and years using structured search queries to build comprehensive historical datasets.
Identify ST Premium paywalled articles automatically and extract all publicly available metadata before the cutoff.
Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at hourly cadences with change-detection diffing.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide categories, author lists, or historical date ranges. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy and Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for SPH Media domains.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, paywall boundary testing, and sample articles before full launch.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
SPH Media invests in scraping detection and content protection. Here is how we stay resilient.
Straits Times uses advanced bot mitigation and rate limiting. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management.
ST Premium articles truncate content for non-subscribers. We accurately flag paywalled content and extract all publicly available metadata and introductory text before the cutoff.
Modern news sites load images and subsequent paragraphs dynamically. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger lazy loads and extract the complete article body.
News layouts change frequently for special features. Our selector strategy uses fallback chains (CSS, XPath, LD+JSON) to ensure consistent data delivery.
Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes or layout drift and respond before you notice.
Track brand mentions, executive quotes, and corporate announcements across Singapore and Asian markets.
Build language models using high-quality editorial content, structured by category, author, and publication date.
Monitor regional developments, government policies, and diplomatic relations in Southeast Asia.
Extract stock tickers, earnings reports, and economic commentary for algorithmic trading models.
Analyse share of voice, topic coverage, and sentiment against industry peers in the Asian market.
Track public discourse, editorial stances, and topic evolution over historical timelines.
"The Straits Times provides the definitive editorial record for Southeast Asia, but extracting that intelligence requires navigating strict media paywalls and dynamic layouts."
Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable media scraping requires residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for lazy-loaded text, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your analysts can focus on the signals, not the infrastructure.
Everything supported by our straitstimes.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, lazy-loading text, and interaction flows.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across Asian regions. Rotation happens per-request to avoid IP bans from SPH media servers.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. 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 straitstimes.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles is generally permissible under fair use for analysis, provided it does not violate copyright by republishing the content. DataFlirt extracts factual data and text for internal NLP and monitoring use. We do not bypass authentication walls or extract ST Premium content.
No. We extract all publicly available metadata, headlines, and free article text. We do not circumvent subscriber login walls to access paid content.
We use Playwright to execute JavaScript, scroll the page, and trigger network requests that load subsequent paragraphs and multimedia assets.
Our streaming pipelines can monitor specific category feeds and deliver new articles via webhook within 5 minutes of publication.
Yes. We can paginate through the site's search or archive structures to extract articles published months or years ago.
Yes. We hash the article content and monitor the updated_date metadata field, delivering a new record if the editorial team revises the text.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical archive dump or a continuous news monitoring feed, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
