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How to scrape Associated Press

Associated Press is a news and finance site where you can access public articles and content. Developers typically collect article metadata, publication details, and publisher information from its public pages.

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31 of 31 of our checks passed in the last 7 days (100%).

Last check 2026-11-06 02:34 UTC · last pass 2026-11-06 02:34 UTC · checked with our own requests, never customer data.

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Recipe one call

Use the Associated Press recipe: send the URL, get JSON

5 credits (JS) a page
curl -G 'https://api.ujeebu.com/scrape' \
  -H "ApiKey: $UJEEBU_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d63a0fae064705e1bb5efec6c' \
  --data-urlencode 'recipe=apnews'

The answer is {"result": {...}} with the fields of the recipe. Billed like any /scrape call: successful responses cost credits; blocked, timed-out and failed requests are free.

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Recipe

Call the recipe by name with the recipe parameter: the Scrape API applies its extract rules and the settings that work on Associated Press. Each recipe was run on two real Associated Press pages and keeps only the fields that came back on both; it is checked again every week, and hidden if it stops working.

Articles

Validated 2026-11-02

One call: recipe=apnews 5 credits (JS) a page

curl -G 'https://api.ujeebu.com/scrape' \
  -H "ApiKey: $UJEEBU_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'url=https://apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d63a0fae064705e1bb5efec6c' \
  --data-urlencode 'recipe=apnews'

The answer is {"result": {...}} with the fields below; the Ujb-Recipe header names the version (for example apnews/detail@v1) and Ujb-Credits the cost.

What this recipe extracts

FieldTypeExample
article.descriptiontextBlondie is set to release a new album, “High Noon,” early next year...
article.headlinetextBlondie to return with new album 'High Noon' next year
article.imageURLhttps://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/8d9d0df/2147483647/strip/fals...
article.modifieddate2026-10-15T07:13:17Z
article.publisheddate2026-10-15T07:13:17Z
article.publishertextAP News
article.sectiontextEntertainment
urlURLhttps://apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d63a0...

Examples from apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d... on 2026-11-02, shortened.

Sample output (real, trimmed)

{
    "article": {
        "description": "Blondie is set to release a new album, “High Noon,” early next year, a decade after their last outing. The band dropped the first single, “Spectral Eyes,” on...",
        "headline": "Blondie to return with new album 'High Noon' next year",
        "image": "https://dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/8d9d0df/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x2000+0+0/resize/1200x800!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F5b...",
        "modified": "2026-10-15T07:13:17Z",
        "published": "2026-10-15T07:13:17Z",
        "publisher": "AP News",
        "section": "Entertainment"
    },
    "url": "https://apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d63a0fae064705e1bb5efec6c"
}
extract_rules (2 rules): the rules behind the recipe

The API applies these rules and the settings js=true for you when you send recipe=apnews. To change what comes back, send your own extract_rules (they replace the recipe's) or any setting (yours always win). Sites without a recipe work the same way with extract rules.

{
    "article": {
        "type": "fn",
        "fn": "const T = ['NewsArticle', 'Article', 'BlogPosting', 'ReportageNews', 'AnalysisNewsArticle', 'TechArticle', 'ScholarlyArticle', 'LiveBlogPosting', 'OpinionNewsArticle', 'Report']; const n = [...document.querySelectorAll('script[type=\"application/ld+json\"]')].flatMap(s => { try { return [].concat(JSON.parse(s.textContent)).flatMap(x => x['@graph'] || [x]); } catch (e) { return []; } }).find(x => x && [].concat(x['@type']).some(t => T.includes(t))); if (!n) return null; const g = p => p.split('|').map(q => q.split('.').reduce((v, k) => v == null ? v : (Array.isArray(v) ? v[0] : v)?.[k], n)).find(v => v != null && v !== ''); const all = v => Array.isArray(v) ? v.map(all).filter(x => x != null).join(', ') : (v && typeof v === 'object' ? (v.name ?? v['@id'] ?? null) : (typeof v === 'string' ? v.replace('https://schema.org/', '').replace('http://schema.org/', '') : v ?? null)); const one = v => all(Array.isArray(v) ? v[0] : v); return { description: all(g('description')), headline: all(g('headline|name')), image: one(g('image.url|image')), modified: all(g('dateModified')), published: all(g('datePublished')), publisher: all(g('publisher.name')), section: all(g('articleSection')) };"
    },
    "url": {
        "selector": "link[rel=\"canonical\"]",
        "type": "attr",
        "attribute": "href"
    }
}

Code

Complete scripts: set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable and run them as they are. Each one calls the recipe by name (the Go SDK has no recipe field, so the Go script sends the recipe's rules and settings itself), prints the extracted JSON, and prints the credits the request cost (the Ujb-Credits response header) on stderr. A non-200 answer stops the script with the API's error message.

Articles

Runs the recipe on the two pages it was validated on, one after the other.

apnews_detail_sdk.py pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Scrape Associated Press articles with the Ujeebu Scrape API.
# Calls the recipe apnews: the API applies its extract rules and validated settings (validated 2026-11-02). Send extract_rules or any setting to override them.
# Uses the official SDK ujeebu-python 0.1.5: pip install ujeebu-python==0.1.5
# Run: UJEEBU_API_KEY=your_key python3 apnews_detail_sdk.py

import json
import os
import sys
import time

import requests
from ujeebu_python import UjeebuClient

API_KEY = os.environ.get("UJEEBU_API_KEY")
URLS = [
    "https://apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d63a0fae064705e1bb5efec6c",
    "https://apnews.com/article/fit-drug-death-charges-4c70052fb8874da8482cced4a012d996",
]
RECIPE = "apnews"  # rules and settings come from the recipe; add your own to override them


def scrape(client, url):
    # a GET with recipe=: the API applies the recipe and answers {"result": {...}}
    try:
        response = client.scrape(url, params={"recipe": RECIPE})
    except requests.RequestException as error:
        sys.exit(f"Request failed for {url}: {error}")
    if response.status_code != 200:
        try:
            message = response.json().get("message", response.text)
        except ValueError:
            message = response.text
        sys.exit(f"HTTP {response.status_code} for {url}: {str(message)[:300]}")
    print(f"Ujb-Credits: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Credits')}, Ujb-Recipe: {response.headers.get('Ujb-Recipe')}", file=sys.stderr)
    return response.json()["result"]


if not API_KEY:
    sys.exit("Set the UJEEBU_API_KEY environment variable.")

client = UjeebuClient(api_key=API_KEY)

for i, url in enumerate(URLS):
    if i:
        time.sleep(2)  # be polite: one page at a time
    print(json.dumps(scrape(client, url), indent=2, ensure_ascii=False))

SDK tabs use the official Ujeebu SDKs (ujeebu-python 0.1.5, @ujeebu-org/ujeebu-sdk 0.1.2, github.com/ujeebu/ujeebu-go v0.1.8); there is no PHP SDK, so the PHP tab calls the API with curl. For agents and scripts, the same status and settings are at /scrape/apnews.json.

Try it yourself

Run this on Associated Press with your own key

Get a free API key, set UJEEBU_API_KEY and run any script above as it is. 5,000 free credits for 7 days, no card.

URL patterns and pagination

What the URLs look like, read from the pages our checks fetched.

Articles

Pattern
https://apnews.com/article/{slug}
Validated on
https://apnews.com/article/blondie-new-album-high-noon-a557083d63a0fae064705e1bb5efec6chttps://apnews.com/article/fit-drug-death-charges-4c70052fb8874da8482cced4a012d996

Settings that work today

From our health checks over the last 7 days: the cheapest settings that return the real page most of the time.

Endpoint/scrape
jstrue
Costup to 5 credits a request

Each public page is one request: change the path in the URL to fetch another one. Collect detail page URLs from listing pages first, then fetch each detail page. Our checks run with JavaScript rendering on (js=true): keep it on. Start with the default (rotating) proxy, the cheapest one that passed most of its attempts in our checks.

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Proxies we tried on Associated Press (1), attempts and passes over 7 days
ProxyAttemptsPassed
Default (rotating)3130

Highlighted: the cheapest proxy that passes most of our checks of this site.

Troubleshooting

The failures our own checks of apnews.com ran into over the last 7 days, and what got the page in the same check.

What happenedTimesWhat fixed it
The site blocked the request (HTTP 403 or a block page) 1 None of the settings we tried got past it in 7 days.

What people build with Associated Press data

  • Media monitoringTrack the articles published on the topics and companies you follow.More on this use case
  • Content for AI and RAGCollect headlines, dates and summaries as structured input for search and LLM pipelines.More on this use case
  • Publishing timelineMeasure when and how often a site publishes, by section.

Limits and etiquette

  • Public pages only. Pages behind a login, and data shown only to signed-in users, are out of scope.
  • Keep the rate modest: fetch pages one after another or with low concurrency, and cache what you already have.
  • robots.txt of apnews.com (read 2026-11-04): public pages allowed for generic crawlers; no crawl delay set.
  • Read Associated Press's terms of service before you collect data at scale, and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This guide is not legal advice.

Questions

Can you scrape Associated Press with Ujeebu?

Yes. 31 of 31 checks of public Associated Press pages passed in the last 7 days with the settings on this page.

Which settings work for Associated Press?

Call /scrape with js=true. On the default (rotating) proxy, 30 of 31 attempts passed in the last 7 days.

How many credits does a Associated Press request cost?

With these settings a request costs up to 5 credits. Only responses with HTTP 200 or 404 are billed: a blocked or timed-out request is free.

Which fields can I extract from Associated Press?

With the extraction recipes on this page, validated on real Associated Press pages through our API: articles: description, headline, image, modified, published, publisher, section, url. Pass the recipe as extract_rules in a POST to /scrape and the API returns those fields as JSON.

Is it allowed to scrape Associated Press?

Its robots.txt allows generic crawlers on the page types in this guide. Collect public pages only, read Associated Press's terms of service, keep your request rate modest and do not collect personal data you have no basis to process. This is not legal advice.

How fresh is this page?

The status and settings come from our own health checks of apnews.com, which run around the clock. Last check: 2026-11-06 02:34:15 UTC; last pass: 2026-11-06 02:34:15 UTC.