Need to track Nigerian news and opinions at scale? If you're working with media monitoring, sentiment analysis, or just building a dataset of West African current affairs, getting clean, structured data from Punch NG is a common starting point. I built this scraper because I needed a reliable way to pull full article text, headlines, and metadata from one of Nigeria's most influential newspapers without manual copying and pasting. It automates the tedious part, visiting the site, navigating sections, and extracting the core content into a consistent JSON or spreadsheet format you can actually use. You can point it at specific sections, like politics or business, or let it run on a schedule to capture the latest stories. I use the output for training language models on regional dialects, feeding news aggregation dashboards, and keeping an eye on market-moving events reported locally. It handles the pagination and link-following so you can focus on analyzing the data, not collecting it. Just configure your target URLs or sections, run the actor, and get a clean dataset delivered.

What does this actor do?

Punch Newspaper NG Scraper is a web scraping and automation tool available on the Apify platform. It's designed to help you extract data and automate tasks efficiently in the cloud.

Key Features

• Cloud-based execution - no local setup required
• Scalable infrastructure for large-scale operations
• API access for integration with your applications
• Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking measures
• Scheduled runs and webhooks for automation

How to Use

1. Click "Try This Actor" to open it on Apify
2. Create a free Apify account if you don't have one
3. Configure the input parameters as needed
4. Run the actor and download your results