Scrape content pages on ft.com

Measured on Crawlbase

Success rate over every request from every account in August 2026: 90.9%. Patterns, countries and failures come from the request log since 14 Aug 2026; 76.7% of successful calls used the JavaScript token and the median answer took 15.7s.

Among the 74 news and media sites in the Cookbook, ft.com sits at 74 of 74 by success rate; the category median is 98.9%. Its median answer of 15.7s is slower than the category median of 2.3s. 58 of the 74 accept the plain token; this one does on some pages only.

The call

Article pages are the shape the accounts fetch most here, with the country and token that succeed most often. Replace the placeholder path with a real article URL from the site.

curl "https://api.crawlbase.com/?token=YOUR_JS_TOKEN&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2Fexample-page"

from crawlbase import CrawlingAPI
api = CrawlingAPI({'token': 'YOUR_JS_TOKEN'})

r = api.get('https://www.ft.com/content/example-page')
html = r['body']

const { CrawlingAPI } = require('crawlbase');
const api = new CrawlingAPI({ token: 'YOUR_JS_TOKEN' });

const r = await api.get('https://www.ft.com/content/example-page');

Parameters that matter

URL patterns accounts fetch

Fields you get

An article page carries a headline, a date and an author, usually in an ld+json Article block, and the body in the HTML. The block often names the section too.

What breaks, and the fix

Of the failures since 14 Aug 2026, the site answered:

Run it on a schedule

News moves by the hour. Poll the section or the sitemap for new links, then push the article URLs to the Crawler with a callback so the fetches are paced. The median answer on this site is 15.7s.

Questions