ElEspanol.com Scraper

An Apify actor for scraping news data from the Spanish digital newspaper El Español (elespanol.com). It extracts structured content from search results, category pages, and individual articles, including user comments.

Key Features

• Multi-Source Scraping: Collects articles from search queries, category listings, and direct article URLs.
• Full Article Data: Extracts title, body, author, publication date, images, keywords, and article section.
• Comment Scraping: Captures user comments from articles (configurable limit).
• Structured Output: Returns clean, formatted data in JSON following a defined schema.
• Configurable: Control the crawl via start URLs, search terms, and item limits.

How to Use

Configure the actor run with input parameters. The primary method is to provide one or more startUrls. You can also use the query field to perform a site search directly.

Basic Input Example

{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://www.elespanol.com/buscador/?text=Messi&page=1",
    "https://www.elespanol.com/deportes/futbol/"
  ],
  "query": "Messi",
  "commentsMaxItems": 10,
  "maxItems": 50
}

• startUrls: An array of URLs to start scraping from. These can be search results, category pages, or article pages.
• query: A search term. The actor will scrape results from https://www.elespanol.com/buscador/?text=[YOUR_QUERY].
• commentsMaxItems: The maximum number of comments to scrape per article.
• maxItems: The maximum total number of articles to scrape.

Input & Output Schema

Input

The actor accepts the configuration object shown in the "How to Use" section. Additional optional parameters like proxyConfiguration can be used for more complex runs.

Output

Each scraped article is returned as a dataset item with the following JSON structure:

{
  "id": "1003743813220_20",
  "url": "https://www.elespanol.com/example-article",
  "title": "Article Title",
  "primaryImageUrl": "https://.../image.jpg",
  "datePublished": "2025-06-22T02:55:41+02:00",
  "dateModified": "2025-06-22T16:01:31+02:00",
  "isAccessibleForFree": false,
  "authors": [{"name": "Author Name", "jobTitle": "Journalist"}],
  "keywords": ["Keyword1", "Keyword2"],
  "publisher": {
    "name": "El Español",
    "url": "https://www.elespanol.com/",
    "logo": "https://.../logo.png"
  },
  "articleSection": ["Opinión", "Carta del Director"],
  "description": "Article meta description.",
  "articleBody": "Full text of the article...",
  "comments": [
    {
      "text": "User comment text.",
      "author": "Username",
      "date": "2025-06-22T10:15:00+02:00"
    }
  ]
}

The dataset is available in JSON, CSV, and other formats via the Apify platform.