El Pais runs its Spain, America, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and US editions on one domain and El Pais English on another. We merge them into one feed of articles, tags and access flags.
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ScrapeIt runs El Pais data scraping as a managed service: we build the collector, host it and fix it when templates change. Anti-bot handling, proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving are part of the job, because the site screens automated traffic hard. We extract El Pais data from public pages and sitemaps only, never logged in, and for premium pieces the record stops at the metadata and the opening that renders publicly. Every row carries edition, language, access flag and the time it was read. A sample comes first; after sign-off, runs follow your schedule, from a five-minute headline monitor to a one-off archive pull, with delivery as CSV, JSON or XLSX to S3, SFTP or your warehouse, or through an El Pais scraper API endpoint you call.
El Pais articles carry NewsArticle markup and a page data layer, and together they give a clean record without parsing the layout.
The El Pais historical archive is mapped in public. /sitemaps/index.xml lists one sitemap per month from May 1976, the month of the first issue, to the current one, and each file lists that month's URLs with a lastmod stamp. Three address generations appear: print-era pieces such as /diario/1976/05/30/espana/ plus a numeric ID and the suffix _850215, early web stories such as /internacional/2005/03/31/actualidad/ with a ten-digit ID, and today's /section/YYYY-MM-DD/slug.html. The English archive starts in October 2010 under /elpais/.../inenglish/ with the suffix _850210 before moving to english.elpais.com.
Every day also has a listing page, linked from each article's dateline, with the day's stories, bylines, desks, times and subtitles in paged blocks. Beside it sit web front pages saved in morning, afternoon and night slots, and print front pages as images.
Old pieces need care. Print-archive items carry a midnight timestamp that some displays shift to 23:00 the evening before, so the issue date comes from the URL. Archive pages can carry a 2020 update stamp in the data layer that marks a re-save, not an edit. Access differs too: archive pieces ask for a free registration rather than a subscription, yet still report isAccessibleForFree as false, so the product ID is what separates registration from payment.
An El Pais scraper has to start from the edition map, because one domain carries several newspapers. El Pais, founded in Madrid on 4 May 1976 and published by Ediciones EL PAIS within PRISA Media, runs its Spain edition at the root of elpais.com and the others as path prefixes on the same host: /america/ for El Pais America, /mexico/ for El Pais Mexico, /america-colombia/ for Colombia, /chile/, /argentina/ and /us/ for El Pais US in Spanish. El Pais English, labelled US English in the edition switcher, lives on its own host, english.elpais.com, with English section paths such as /usa/ and /economy-and-business/.
Two older editions are gone. The Brazil host, brasil.elpais.com, redirects to the home page, with its last stories dated December 2021. The Catalan host, cat.elpais.com, now points to /quadern/, the Catalan-language section for culture and essays: Catalan edition URLs under /cat/ run until autumn 2022, while Catalonia coverage today is written in Spanish under /espana/catalunya/. Cinco Dias, the group's business daily, sits on cincodias.elpais.com.
The path alone does not settle the edition. Shared desks such as /internacional/ or /cultura/ appear on several fronts, so the Argentina front can carry a piece from the /cultura/ desk. Each record therefore keeps the language code the markup declares - es, es-MX, es-AR, es-US, en-US or ca - and the edition value from the page data layer.
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Full plan detailsOne domain carries several newspapers, and each front makes its own choices: the Spain edition, El Pais Mexico, the Americas fronts and El Pais English lead with different stories on the same day. Sections such as Opinion or El Pais Ideas, subsections like Catalunya under /espana/catalunya/, and the most-read list add what each desk published and what readers opened.
Each record is built from the article page: headline, subtitle, full byline names, tags, the lead image with credit and the text of open articles. The news sitemap at /sitemaps/news.xml keeps about two days of URLs with first publication and last change as separate fields, and the English edition keeps its own. For a live board of El Pais headlines today, a monitor polls the sitemaps every few minutes and reads each new page once for the full record. Buyers use the result for media monitoring across Spain and Latin America, for comparing what the Mexico and Spain fronts lead with, and for El Pais subscription price tracking, since the offer shown on premium pages moves by region and campaign.
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ScrapeIt is a managed web scraping agency. You name the editions, desks, tags and date range; we design the crawl, run it and deliver an El Pais dataset that loads into your tools without cleaning. Projects usually start with one edition and a month of history, add the Americas fronts and the English translations once the matching rules are agreed, and settle on a refresh rate that fits the use, from minutes for a newsroom monitor to monthly for research. Pricing follows volume and frequency, and a sample of your own selection comes first.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt El Pais API returns headlines, subtitles, bylines, tags, update times and access flags for every edition, El Pais English included, as JSON from an endpoint we host, refreshed on the schedule you set. The same data also comes as CSV or XLSX files or straight into your database.
Every edition on elpais.com: Spain at the root, then /america/, /mexico/, /america-colombia/, /chile/, /argentina/ and /us/ as path prefixes on the same host. El Pais English lives on english.elpais.com with its own sections, and topic and author pages can be collected as well. Each record keeps the edition value and the language code the markup declares, so a piece from a shared desk is not assigned to the wrong front.
It depends on the article, not the edition. Premium pieces are marked isAccessibleForFree false with the product elpais.com:premium, metered pieces stay free until a registration wall, El Pais English is open, and branded content and live blogs can be flagged as outside the wall. So a Mexico report and a US edition analysis from the same weekend can fall on different sides of the wall. Premium, metered and El Pais free articles are told apart on the page, which is why every record carries its access flag. How much an El Pais subscription costs depends on region: on 28 September 2026 the European flash offer was one year for EUR 8.99 with six months of the PDF edition.
Yes. El Pais English translates a selection of El Pais news in Spanish, and a translated page carries an hreflang link to its original, which can sit under another edition path such as /us/ and carry an earlier date. We keep both records and link them, so you can filter English coverage or measure what gets translated. Tags need one cleaning step: the same tag can appear with its Spanish label, Iran with an accent for example, while the page shows the English one, so tags are matched on their slug.
Yes. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on El Pais, part of PRISA Media: headlines, subtitles, bylines, dates, sections, tags, access flags and the text of open articles - and we collect it legally. Premium text stays out, as we never log in or go behind the paywall. Reader comments and letters to the editor are not collected, since they name private people.
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