Czech News Scraper

Overview

This actor scrapes article text and metadata from major Czech news websites. It's built for speed and delivers structured JSON data, supporting both real-time and historical articles. The scraper currently covers over 1 million articles from Novinky.cz, Seznam Zprávy, Super.cz, and ProŽeny.cz, with more sites to be added.

Key Features

• High-speed scraping: Processes thousands of articles in seconds
• Structured JSON output: Ready for direct integration and processing
• Comprehensive metadata: Extracts author, title, publication/update dates, tags, categories, and more
• Clean content format: Article text provided in Markdown for analysis
• Consistent schema: Uniform data structure across all supported websites
• Flexible filtering: Filter by full-text query, created date range, or updated date range
• Multiple sort options: Sort by created date, updated date, or relevance rank
• Pagination: Retrieve up to 100 articles per page

How to Use

Run the actor via the Apify platform. Configure your scrape using the following input parameters:

Basic configuration:
- websites: Select which news sites to scrape (default: all supported)
- maxItems: Set maximum number of articles to retrieve
- query: Full-text search across article content

Filtering options:
- createdAfter / createdBefore: Date range for article publication
- updatedAfter / updatedBefore: Date range for article updates

Sorting and pagination:
- sortBy: Choose "created", "updated", or "rank"
- sortOrder: "asc" or "desc"
- offset: Pagination starting point
- limit: Articles per page (max 100)

Test configurations in the Start Console section — you only pay for results received, and free Apify credits are available to get started.

Input/Output

Input: Configure via the actor's input schema as described above.

Output: Results are available as a dataset in the Output tab, viewable as a table or raw JSON. Each article includes:

{
  "articleId": 40528950,
  "created": 1751640522,
  "updated": 1751652939,
  "url": "https://www.novinky.cz/clanek/...",
  "section": "ekonomika",
  "tags": ["Elektřina", "Blackout"],
  "authors": ["Martin Procházka"],
  "title": "Article title here",
  "perex": "Article excerpt...",
  "contentMarkdown": "Full article text in Markdown format..."
}

Additional fields include recommendedUntilDate, domicile, relatedArticles, and various content flags.

Dataset size: The actor currently provides access to over 1,076,000 articles across supported websites.

To request support for additional Czech news websites, create an issue in the actor's repository.