Crypto News

Bitcoin, DeFi, and crypto-market headlines from major outlets, delivered as structured JSON by a scraper that respects robots.txt and reports its own health.

Crypto News is a compliant bitcoin news feed and DeFi news source for AI agents, trading and sentiment bots, RAG builders, and dashboards. It reads the public headline pages of CoinDesk, Decrypt, CoinTelegraph, and Bitcoin Magazine and turns them into a clean dataset of titled, categorized article links. Schedule it and your pipeline tracks the market without you babysitting a scraper.

What you get

Field	Meaning
title	The headline text
url	Canonical article link, fragment-stripped and deduplicated within the run
source	Source domain, e.g. decrypt.co
category	Your label for the source: markets, policy, bitcoin, general
fetched_at	UTC timestamp of the run
extraction	Extraction method version (selector_free_v1)

Quick start

Run with the prefilled input, or paste:

{
  "sources": [
    { "url": "https://www.coindesk.com/markets", "category": "markets" },
    { "url": "https://decrypt.co/", "category": "general" },
    { "url": "https://cointelegraph.com/", "category": "general" }
  ]
}

A run returns up to 25 headlines per source (75 here) and typically finishes in under a minute.

Output example

{
  "category": "general",
  "title": "Solana Exchange Raydium Hit With $1.34 Million Exploit as DeFi Attacks Grow",
  "url": "https://decrypt.co/370700/solana-exchange-raydium-exploit-defi-attacks-grow",
  "source": "decrypt.co",
  "fetched_at": "2026-06-10T17:42:08+00:00",
  "extraction": "selector_free_v1"
}

Why this one

• Selector-free extraction. Headlines are identified by link-text shape and URL structure, not CSS selectors, so the site redesigns that break conventional scrapers do not break this one.
• Zero-yield flagging. A source that suddenly returns nothing is flagged in the HEALTH report as possible layout drift — never silently dropped, never padded with stale data.
• Per-source categories. Tag CoinDesk policy as policy and Bitcoin Magazine as bitcoin, then filter the dataset by label downstream.
• Built for schedules. Every record carries a UTC fetched_at and a canonical URL, so finding new articles between runs is a set difference on url.
• Bring your own sources. Any public, robots-permitting news site can be added as {url, category} — no per-site configuration to write or maintain.

Compliance and reliability

Topsail actors are built compliance-first and ship with self-healing plumbing:

• robots.txt is always respected — fail-closed. If a robots check cannot complete, the source is skipped, never scraped. There is no input to turn this off.
• This actor reads only the public headline listing pages of CoinDesk, Decrypt, CoinTelegraph, and Bitcoin Magazine — link text and article URLs published to every visitor, never article bodies, logins, or paywalls.
• Transient failures retry once with backoff; persistent failures are reported, not hidden.
• Every run writes a per-source HEALTH report to the key-value store, so you can see exactly which sources delivered and which were blocked, empty, or erroring.
• No PII, no paywalled or login-gated content, no circumvention.

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.50 per 1,000 headlines pushed to the dataset. Sources that are robots-blocked, unreachable, or empty produce no records and therefore cost nothing — they show up in the HEALTH report instead. A full default-source run yields at most 125 records, about $0.06.

Honest limits

• Sources can and do block automated clients — Bitcoin Magazine currently returns HTTP 403 — and when that happens this actor reports fetch_error in HEALTH rather than rotating proxies or faking output.
• Headlines only: title, URL, source, category. No article body, summary, author, or sentiment score.
• Coverage is what each listing page currently shows, not an archive; run on a schedule to build history.
• category is the label you assign per source, not per-article classification.
• The shape filter targets standard headlines (5+ words, 28-200 characters), so very short titles are skipped by design.

FAQ

Can I use this as a crypto news API? Yes. Schedule the actor and read the dataset through Apify's API — each run is a fresh batch of structured headlines.

How do I get a Bitcoin-only news feed? Label your Bitcoin-focused sources bitcoin and filter the dataset on category.

Does it cover DeFi news? Yes — Decrypt and CoinTelegraph carry DeFi and on-chain coverage in the default set, and you can add any robots-permitting DeFi outlet as a source.

What happens when a source blocks or breaks? It appears in the HEALTH report as robots_blocked, fetch_error, or zero_yield_check_layout, produces no records, and costs nothing.

Can I add my own sources? Yes. Pass { "url": ..., "category": ... } items; extraction is selector-free, so no per-site setup is needed.

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