Most Italian news starts as agency copy. Measure where ANSA's wire travels and you are measuring the Italian news agenda at its source.
ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the sections, regions or editions; we collect headlines and metadata with edition and regional desk as fields, link pickups across Italian outlets, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
News moves quickly, so collection runs frequently enough that the first appearance of a story is recorded, which is what makes timing analysis possible.
We honour the crawl rules and the AI training exclusion. Agency text is licensed content: the dataset is for measurement rather than republication, and full-text use needs a licence from the agency. Your counsel should see the use case before the project starts.
Story records carry the headline, dateline, publication and update timestamps, section, region where the desk is regional, edition - Italian or English - and the address.
Edition is a first class field. The English service is a selection, written for foreign readers, and comparing what appears in English against the full Italian output is a measurable question about how Italy is presented abroad.
Regional desk is kept rather than folded into national sections, because a large share of agency output is regional and a national-only view misses where much of the country's news actually originates.
Pickup records are a separate table: where ANSA copy appears in other Italian outlets, identified by the agency credit, collected from sources that permit collection.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and the source type, so agency output and pickup observations are never mixed.
Pickup tracking is the distinctive output: which ANSA stories were taken up by which outlets, with what delay, and how far the headline travelled from the original wording. It runs on outlets that permit collection and needs nothing beyond the agency credit to link copies.
Regional desk analysis maps where agency attention goes across Italy's regions and how that shifts over time, which is useful to regional authorities and to anyone tracking local risk.
Edition comparison between Italian and English output measures the international selection directly.
Limits: headlines and metadata for analysis, not republication of agency text, which is the agency's licensed product. No collection behind any login, and no use of the material as AI training data, in line with the exclusion the agency states in its crawl rules.
ANSA is Italy's leading news agency. Like any wire service, most of its reach is indirect: newspapers, broadcasters and websites across the country take its copy and build on it, so an ANSA story frequently becomes many Italian stories within hours.
Its own site publishes the agency's news by section and region, and it runs an English-language service for international readers. That gives a data project two related but distinct streams: what the agency tells Italy, and what it chooses to tell the world in English.
Section and English-edition pages respond directly with substantial content. The crawl rules for general crawlers are narrow and technical, while the major AI training crawlers are named and excluded. We read that the way the agency wrote it: collection of headlines and metadata for analysis is outside what the exclusion addresses, and using the material to train a model is exactly what it addresses. We do the first and never the second.
For anyone studying the Italian media, the agency is the upstream point where most coverage can be measured first.
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Media monitoring in Italy usually starts with the big newspapers. That measures the end of the chain. A great deal of what those papers publish began as agency copy, and measuring at the agency shows the agenda before it is multiplied and reshaped.
The first product is timing. When a story first appeared on the wire, and how long it took to reach national and regional outlets, is a direct measure of how news moves through the Italian system - and of which outlets add original reporting on top.
The second is regional coverage. Agency regional desks cover places national newspapers reach only occasionally, so the regional stream is often the best structured source for local events across Italy.
The third is the English service, a curated view of Italy for international readers. What gets translated, and how quickly, says something about which Italian stories the agency expects the world to care about.
And the exclusion of AI training crawlers is respected throughout. The dataset is for measurement and analysis, and it is never used or passed on as training data.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team follows sections and regional desks as the site changes, keeps editions apart, and repairs collection before a news cycle goes unrecorded.
You see a sample first, in your format, over the sections and regions you actually follow, with pickups linked so you can see how far a story travelled.
No. The agency names the AI training crawlers in its crawl rules and excludes them. We collect headlines and metadata for analysis, which is outside that exclusion, and we never use or pass on the material as training data.
Because much Italian coverage begins as agency copy. Measuring at the agency shows the agenda before it is multiplied and reshaped, and makes it possible to see which outlets add original reporting on top.
A curated view of Italy for international readers. Comparing it with the Italian output shows which stories the agency expects the world to care about, and how quickly they are translated.
Yes - regional desk is a field. A large share of agency output is regional, and it is often the best structured source for local events that national newspapers reach only occasionally.
No. Agency text is the agency's licensed product. Our dataset is headlines and metadata for measurement; full-text use needs a licence from the agency, and we say so before quoting.
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