We extract articles, author metadata, financial reporting, and opinion pieces from The Globe and Mail. 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 theglobeandmail.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-bank-of-canada-rate-decision/", "headline": "Bank of Canada holds key interest rate steady", "author": "Mark Rendell", "published_date": "2023-10-25T14:00:00Z", "section": "Business", "word_count": 845, "paywalled": true
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Complete list of extractable fields for Authors objects from theglobeandmail.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"name": "Mark Rendell", "profile_url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/authors/mark-rendell/", "role": "Economics Reporter", "twitter_handle": "@mark_rendell", "article_count": 412, "bio": "Mark Rendell covers economics and the Bank of Canada for the Report on Business."
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Complete list of extractable fields for Business & Markets objects from theglobeandmail.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/article-tsx-update/", "tickers_mentioned": "['RY-T', 'TD-T']", "sector": "Financials", "company_names": "['Royal Bank of Canada', 'TD Bank']", "publication_date": "2023-10-25T16:30:00Z", "headline": "TSX rallies as bank stocks gain"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Comments objects from theglobeandmail.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"article_url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-housing-policy/", "comment_id": "c_9823741", "user_name": "CanuckInvestor", "comment_text": "This policy misses the fundamental supply issues in major markets.", "timestamp": "2023-10-26T09:15:22Z", "upvotes": 42
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Complete list of extractable fields for Sections & Metadata objects from theglobeandmail.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"section_name": "Report on Business", "sub_section": "Economy", "url": "https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/", "extraction_timestamp": "2023-10-26T12:00:00Z", "total_articles": 15, "layout_type": "grid"
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Our pipeline handles every layer of the publication: article extraction, author metadata, financial ticker mapping, and comment sections, with JavaScript rendering and anti-bot circumvention built in.
Headline, subhead, body text, publication date, update timestamps, and section metadata scraped cleanly without HTML bloat.
Extract financial reporting, stock tickers mentioned, and sector tags from Canada's premier business section.
Capture author profiles, contact information, biographies, and historical article counts across the platform.
Extract user comments, upvotes, and reply threads on public articles for sentiment analysis and audience research.
Map articles to their exact taxonomy, including primary sections, sub-sections, and editorial tags.
Identify whether an article is free, registered-user only, or fully paywalled, capturing available metadata regardless of state.
Monitor updated_date timestamps to capture revisions and factual corrections on developing stories.
Capture image URLs, caption text, photo credits, and embedded video links associated with each article.
Run one-off historical archive exports or configure continuous pipelines at minute-level cadences.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide section URLs, author names, or keyword sets. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and anti-bot handling for theglobeandmail.com.
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 publishers invest heavily in edge caching and bot detection. Here is how we stay resilient, and why teams choose managed infrastructure over DIY.
The Globe and Mail uses strict edge protection to block automated scrapers. Our crawlers use residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and full cookie session management to bypass Akamai and Cloudflare challenges.
Modern news sites load content via complex JavaScript frameworks. We run full Playwright browser sessions to ensure lazy-loaded text, dynamic images, and comment sections hydrate fully before extraction.
While we do not bypass authentication walls, our pipeline accurately identifies paywall states and extracts all publicly available metadata, headlines, and partial text before the gate triggers.
Editorial layouts change frequently for special features and interactive graphics. Our selector strategy uses fallback chains and structured data extraction (LD+JSON) to ensure text capture remains stable.
Articles are frequently updated after initial publication. We maintain a hash index of article states and monitor the updated_date field, pushing diffs when journalists revise a story.
Hedge funds and quantitative analysts scan the Report on Business for ticker mentions and executive quotes to gauge market sentiment.
Agencies track brand mentions, executive coverage, and crisis developments across national Canadian news.
Machine learning teams ingest high-quality, professionally edited Canadian journalism to train regional language models.
Think tanks and academic researchers analyse policy coverage, opinion pieces, and editorial stances over time.
Corporate strategy teams monitor news coverage of rival firms, tracking executive movements and strategic announcements.
Communications teams map author beats, recent article topics, and publication frequency to optimise press pitching.
"The Globe and Mail represents the definitive record of Canadian business and politics, but extracting it at scale requires navigating strict edge protection and dynamic layouts."
News sites rely on heavy caching, edge protection, and complex DOM structures for ad delivery. DataFlirt manages the residential proxies, JavaScript rendering, and selector maintenance so your data science teams receive clean text and metadata, not HTML bloat.
Everything supported by our theglobeandmail.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 JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across CA/US 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 theglobeandmail.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available metadata, headlines, and non-paywalled text is generally permissible under fair dealing and fair use doctrines for specific analytical purposes. DataFlirt targets only public data and does not circumvent authentication walls to steal paywalled content. Clients should consult legal counsel regarding copyright and specific commercial use cases.
We do not bypass the paywall. Our pipeline identifies paywalled articles, flags them with a boolean indicator, and extracts all publicly available metadata, headlines, author details, and preview text.
Yes. We configure high-frequency polling on specific sections or author feeds to capture new articles and monitor the updated_date field for revisions to developing stories.
Yes. We capture the primary article image URLs, captions, photo credits, and embedded multimedia links within the article body.
Streaming pipelines achieve sub-5-minute latency for new article detection on defined section feeds. Full historical archive exports depend on the requested date range and volume.
Our smallest packages start at defined section monitoring or author tracking. For large historical archiving or custom NLP schema requirements, we price based on compute volume and delivery frequency. Contact us for a scoped quote.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a historical archive dump or a continuous media monitoring feed, we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
