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The Straits Times pages, filters, fields and a schedule
Built, monitored and repaired by our team
API, JSON feed or CSV, XLSX and JSON files
ScrapeIt runs the collection as a managed service. You name the sections, markets or topics; we build the pipeline with story country and access level as fields, and hand back CSV, JSON, Excel or a push into your warehouse.
Forward monitoring fits this source comfortably; for archive backfill we quote the real duration rather than a hopeful one.
We collect published content only and do not circumvent subscriptions. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on The Straits Times - and we collect it legally.
Article records carry the headline, standfirst, publication and update timestamps, section, the country or countries the story concerns, topic tags, author where bylined, word count, access level and the address.
Story country is a separate field from section, because a Singapore newsroom reporting on Indonesia produces an article whose subject and whose origin are different places. Media analysis that conflates them attributes regional coverage to the wrong market.
Access level is recorded, since subscription and open articles both appear and a corpus that mixes them without saying so produces word counts and text analysis that cannot be interpreted.
Entities mentioned are extracted where a client needs them, with the transliteration issue handled: names across Southeast Asian languages appear in several romanised forms and matching has to allow for that.
Every row carries the collection timestamp and a revision count where re-collection shows the article changed.
Cross-market comparison is the strongest use: how much attention each Southeast Asian market receives, how that shifts around events, and which topics travel across borders. It works because one newsroom applies one standard, which separate national outlets do not.
Archive backfill is possible, and we quote its real duration up front rather than a hopeful number.
Ongoing monitoring is the better-fitting product here: a forward feed of new articles by section and market, with revisions caught on re-collection.
Limits: subscription content stays behind its subscription and we record access level rather than circumventing. And one outlet is one perspective on a region, which matters more when the outlet is a paper of record.
The Straits Times is Singapore's main English-language daily, covering national news, business and a significant amount of reporting on the wider Southeast Asian region from a single well-resourced newsroom.
The regional coverage is the reason it appears in most Southeast Asia media briefs. Consistent English-language reporting on Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines from one editorial standard is hard to assemble otherwise, and it gives a comparable baseline across markets whose domestic media are in different languages.
Section pages respond directly with substantial content. Each article shows the headline, standfirst, publication and update timestamps, section, topic tags and the author where bylined, and subscription and open articles appear side by side.
Delivery: CSV, JSON or XLSX files, our API or a JSON feed. MCP server on request.
Full plan detailsThe first reason to collect it is the regional baseline. English-language reporting on several Southeast Asian markets from one editorial standard is genuinely hard to replace, and for cross-market comparison it removes a confound that separate domestic outlets introduce.
The second is that one feed covers several markets. Story country as a field lets it answer questions about each of them, and collecting only the sections a client actually needs keeps a monitoring series clean and quick to refresh.
The third is that a paper of record has a particular relationship with official information in its market, and anyone reading its coverage analytically should record that as context rather than treat all outlets as interchangeable observers.
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Web scraping is a method of obtaining web data by extracting it from pages of web resources with the help of a program, that is, in automatic mode. It is used to syntactically convert web pages into more usable forms.
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ScrapeIt is a managed extraction company, not a tool you have to learn. Our team builds the pipeline, watches it as the site changes, and repairs it before a monitoring series loses the week an event happened.
You see a sample first, in your format, over the markets you actually follow, with story country separated from section so you can check the attribution on real articles.
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Yes. The ScrapeIt Straits Times API returns headline, standfirst, publication timestamp, section, story country and access level 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.
Yes. Headlines, standfirsts, sections, timestamps, topic tags and bylines are shown to every visitor, and subscription articles are collected only as far as they are served publicly. We collect only publicly available data - everything a visitor can see on The Straits Times - and we collect it legally.
Because a Singapore newsroom reporting on Indonesia produces an article whose subject and origin are different places. Conflating them attributes regional coverage to the wrong market, which is exactly the error a regional comparison cannot survive.
One editorial standard across several markets. English-language reporting on Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and the Philippines from a single newsroom removes the confound that separate domestic outlets in different languages introduce.
Only what is served publicly, with access level recorded on every row. A corpus that mixes open and truncated articles without saying which produces word counts and text analysis nobody downstream can interpret.
You share your needs, expectations, and desired timeframe. We'll suggest the best solution based on your request and budget.
Our specialists configure the crawlers and extract a sample dataset for your review before proceeding with the full-scale extraction.
Once you approve the sample, we launch the project and start full data collection. We gather, filter, and structure the data for easy use, delivering it on time in your preferred format.
Our team manages ongoing processes, monitors website changes, and supports all data extraction cycles. We can also help integrate data into your systems or create dashboards to simplify analysis.
Tell us which sites, which fields and how often. A couple of lines is enough to start.
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