We extract article text, broadcast metadata, Faktenfinder reports, and regional updates from Tagesschau.de. 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 tagesschau.de. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_id": "ts-112458", "url": "https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/beispiel-artikel.html", "headline": "Bundestag verabschiedet neues Gesetz", "author": "ARD Hauptstadtsstudio", "publish_date": "2026-05-12T14:30:00Z", "category": "Inland", "tags": "['Bundestag', 'Gesetz', 'Politik']", "body_text": "Der Bundestag hat heute mit breiter Mehrheit..."
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Complete list of extractable fields for Breaking News (Eilmeldungen) objects from tagesschau.de. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"alert_id": "eil-88392", "timestamp": "2026-05-12T08:15:22Z", "headline": "Leitzins bleibt unverändert", "summary": "Die EZB belässt den Leitzins auf dem aktuellen Niveau.", "article_url": "https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/ezb-zinsentscheid.html", "push_notification_flag": true, "severity": "high"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Faktenfinder objects from tagesschau.de. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"report_id": "ff-9921", "url": "https://www.tagesschau.de/faktenfinder/beispiel-faktencheck.html", "claim": "Angebliches Zitat auf Social Media geteilt", "verdict": "Falsch", "author": "Faktenfinder-Team", "publish_date": "2026-05-11T10:00:00Z", "references_list": "['dpa', 'Statistisches Bundesamt']"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Video Broadcasts objects from tagesschau.de. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"broadcast_id": "tv-2000-20260512", "title": "tagesschau 20:00 Uhr", "air_date": "2026-05-12T20:00:00Z", "duration_seconds": 915, "anchor_name": "Jens Riewa", "topics_covered": "['Wetter', 'Politik', 'Sport']", "video_url": "https://media.tagesschau.de/video/2026/0512/TV-20260512-2000.mp4"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Regional News objects from tagesschau.de. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"region_id": "reg-ndr-441", "region_name": "Niedersachsen", "ard_station": "NDR", "headline": "Neue Windparks in der Nordsee geplant", "publish_date": "2026-05-12T09:45:00Z", "local_tags": "['Windenergie', 'Nordsee', 'Wirtschaft']", "url": "https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/regional/niedersachsen/ndr-windparks.html"
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Our pipeline handles the complexities of public broadcasting data: high-frequency breaking news alerts, regional ARD syndication mapping, and video metadata extraction. Built for media monitoring and NLP training.
Capture headlines, subheadlines, author bylines, and complete body text across all categories including Inland, Ausland, and Wirtschaft.
High-frequency polling for breaking news alerts. Track duration, severity, and the final linked article for every push notification event.
Extract structured fact-checking reports including the original claim, the verdict, and all cited reference links.
Collect air dates, durations, anchor names, and covered topic lists for the 20:00 Uhr broadcast and Tagesthemen.
Identify and categorise local news syndicated from regional broadcasters like NDR, WDR, BR, and SWR.
Track article revisions. Capture both the original publication date and the last modified timestamp to monitor editorial changes.
Extract the internal tagging system to cluster articles by topic, geographic region, or political entity.
Scrape structured polling data, regional results, and coalition projections during state and federal election cycles.
Run hourly or daily pipelines to build a permanent, queryable archive of German public news coverage.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Select target categories, regional filters, or specific broadcast types. We map the required schema.
We configure Scrapy crawlers, handle rate limits, and normalise ARD regional syndication formats.
Schema validation, null-rate checks on article bodies, and timestamp normalisation before deployment.
JSON, CSV, or Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on your cadence.
Tagesschau.de uses aggressive caching and specific regional syndication patterns. Here is how we ensure comprehensive data capture.
Breaking news requires minute-by-minute polling. We distribute requests across German residential proxy pools to monitor the front page JSON feeds without triggering rate limits or IP blocks.
Regional news is syndicated from different ARD stations (WDR, NDR, etc.) with varying DOM structures. Our selectors normalise these disparate layouts into a single, consistent regional news schema.
Articles are frequently updated as stories develop. We maintain a hash index of article bodies. When an update timestamp changes, we emit a new versioned record to track the editorial narrative over time.
Broadcast pages rely heavily on embedded media players. We intercept the backend API calls that populate these players to extract raw metadata, subtitle URLs, and topic segment timestamps.
Deep archiving requires traversing complex date-based navigation. Our crawlers systematically map the historical index to ensure zero missed articles during full retrospective scrapes.
Agencies track brand mentions, political entities, and corporate coverage across national and regional public broadcasting.
AI teams use high-quality, editorially vetted German text from Tagesschau to train language models and sentiment classifiers.
Researchers monitor election coverage, topic frequency, and Faktenfinder reports to study political discourse and media bias.
Financial and supply chain analysts ingest Eilmeldungen via webhook for real-time alerts on geopolitical events and economic policy.
Think tanks analyse the Faktenfinder corpus to track the spread of specific claims and the effectiveness of public fact-checking.
Marketers aggregate local ARD news data to understand regional economic developments and sentiment variations across Germany.
"Tagesschau.de is the definitive record of German public broadcasting. Extracting its historical archive and real-time alerts requires a resilient pipeline."
News cycles move fast. Polling the front page for Eilmeldungen requires high-frequency scraping without triggering rate limits. DataFlirt handles the proxy rotation, video metadata extraction, and timestamp normalisation so your data science team can focus on NLP and sentiment modelling instead of maintaining brittle selectors.
Everything supported by our tagesschau.de 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 high-throughput article extraction. Playwright executes JavaScript to capture dynamic media player metadata and interactive election graphics.
We route requests through German residential IPs to ensure access to regionally restricted broadcasts and avoid rate limits during high-frequency polling.
Pipelines run on AWS infrastructure. Airflow manages polling schedules for breaking news versus deep historical archive crawls. All state is stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About tagesschau.de scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available news articles and metadata from Tagesschau.de is generally permissible for analysis and research purposes. DataFlirt extracts only public, non-authenticated data. We do not bypass DRM on video files or extract personal user data. Clients must ensure their downstream use complies with copyright law and ARD terms of service.
Our high-frequency pipelines poll the front page feeds every minute. We push breaking news alerts via Webhook within seconds of detection, allowing your systems to react in real time.
Yes. We can configure deep crawls to traverse the historical index, extracting articles, metadata, and Faktenfinder reports dating back to the limits of the public archive.
We extract comprehensive video metadata, subtitle URLs, and direct media stream URLs. We do not download or host the heavy MP4/HLS video files themselves, but we provide the links required for your systems to process them.
We monitor the update timestamps on target articles. If the content changes, we capture the new version and emit a diff record, allowing you to track editorial revisions over time.
Yes. Tagesschau.de syndicates content from regional broadcasters (NDR, WDR, SWR, etc.). We normalise these various layouts into a consistent regional news schema, including geographic tags.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical archive dump for NLP training or a real-time webhook for breaking news alerts. We scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
