The Star (Malaysia) Article Scraper

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Extract article metadata, author, and available text from any thestar.com.my article URL. The Star is Malaysia's largest English-language newspaper covering national news, business, and lifestyle.

Why Use This Actor?

• Malaysian news monitoring - track the most-read English-language paper in Malaysia.
• Regional Southeast Asian coverage - unique perspective on Malaysia, ASEAN, and regional politics.
• Metadata and headline extraction - useful even under the Piano paywall: author, date, title, and intro always available.

How It Works

This actor uses only HTTP requests - no browser, no Selenium, no Playwright. Articles are extracted in seconds with RAM usage well under 256 MB.

Note: The Star uses a Piano paywall. Only the intro paragraphs (typically 1–3) are freely visible. Author, title, and publication date are always extracted from structured metadata.

Input

{
"url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/03/06/interactive-malaysias-score-improves-for-gender-equality-but-we-are-still-worst-in-asean",
"urls":[
"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/04/23/article-one",
"https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2026/04/22/article-two"
],
"mode":"article",
"limit":10
}

Output

{
"url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/05/15/singer-namewee-freed-of-drug-related-charges",
"source":"The Star",
"title":"Singer Namewee freed of drug-related charges",
"description":"",
"content":"KUALA LUMPUR: Singer Wee Meng Chee, better known as Namewee, has been acquitted by the Magistrate’s Court of two drug-related charges. Magistrate Khairunnisak Hassni granted a discharge and acquittal after the prosecution informed the court that the Attorney General’s Chambers had accepted Namewee’s second representation to drop the charges. His first representation, submitted last month, was rejected....",
"image":"https://apicms.thestar.com.my/uploads/images/2026/05/15/3908737.jpg",
"language":"en_GB",
"word_count":116,
"published_date":"2026-05-14T16:00:00.000Z",
"modified_date":"2026-05-15T01:31:16.000Z",
"authors":[
"The Star Online"
],
"categories":"",
"tags":""
}

Fetch Latest News

Set mode to "latest" to fetch the newest article URLs and titles from The Star news section instead of extracting a single article.

Input:

{
"mode":"latest",
"limit":10
}

Output - array of objects:

[
{
"url":"https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2026/04/23/37-foreigners-held-in-raid-on-johor-entertainment-outlet",
"title":"37 foreigners held in raid on Johor entertainment outlet",
"source":"The Star"
}
]

Source: https://www.thestar.com.my/news (homepage, no public RSS available)

Cron Schedule: Auto-Fetch Newest Articles

Combine mode: "latest" and mode: "article" to keep a fresh feed running on autopilot:

1. Schedule a recurring run of this Actor with {"mode": "latest", "limit": 20} via Apify Schedules (UI ▸ Schedules ▸ Create new). A cron expression like */30 * * * * runs it every 30 minutes.
2. Webhook the dataset of the latest run into another Actor run with mode: "article" and the new URLs as input — Apify integrations let you chain runs via the "Actor finished" webhook without any glue code.
3. The article-mode run extracts the full body, image, authors, and metadata for each URL and appends to your master dataset.

Common cron expressions:

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