Construction Dive Scraper

Name: Construction Dive Scraper
Brand: Lexis Solutions
SKU: lexis-solutions/constructiondive-com-scraper
Price: 32.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Lexis Solutions

Lexis Solutions · @lexis-solutions

This actor scrapes articles from Construction Dive's Deep Dive section, extracting details such as title, URL, publication date, and contact information.

Automation News

About

Construction Dive Scraper

What does the Construction Dive Scraper do?

This actor crawls Construction Dive (constructiondive.com) to collect article and press-release content. It supports both article/search pages (topic pages, press-release index) and article/detail pages (news and press releases). The scraper normalizes and produces structured dataset items for downstream analysis. s

What data can I extract from ConstructionDive.com with this scraper?

With this actor you can extract:

Article-level metadata: url, title, publishDate, subHeading, description (cleaned paragraphs and headings)
Authors: author, authorTitle
Lead image: articleImage, imageCaption, sourceText
Inline and gallery images: images array with imageUrl, captionText, sourceText
Press release fields (when page is a press release): contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone, aboutSection

How to use this Scraper

This actor is runnable on Apify or locally. Provide startUrls (search/listing pages or direct article pages) and maxItems to limit how many detail pages are enqueued per start URL.

Steps:

Provide start URLs (search/listing or detail pages) in the input or via the startUrls console field.
Set maxItems to limit how many detail pages to collect per start URL.
Run the actor and download the dataset when complete.

Input

The actor accepts the following input parameters:

startUrls (array of objects) - Required. URLs to start with. Can be search/listing pages or individual article/press-release pages.
maxItems (integer) - The maximum number of detail pages to enqueue per start URL. Example: 5
proxyConfiguration (object) - Proxy settings. US residential by default. See Proxy below.

Supported URL Examples

Topic/search pages / press release index: https://www.constructiondive.com/press-release, https://www.constructiondive.com/topic/commercial-building/
Site root / landing: https://www.constructiondive.com/
Article/detail pages: https://www.constructiondive.com/news/data-centers-community-benefits-spec-new-york-build-panel/816335/

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.constructiondive.com/press-release/" },
    { "url": "https://www.constructiondive.com/topic/commercial-building/" }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
}

Proxy

By default the scraper uses a US residential proxy, which gives the fastest and most reliable runs:

"proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
}

The scraper also handles the site's bot protection without a proxy, so you can turn it off with { "useApifyProxy": false }. To use your own proxies instead, add them in proxyUrls:

"proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false,
    "proxyUrls": ["http://user:[email protected]:8000"]
}

On platforms without Apify Proxy, the default setting stops the run with an error; turn the proxy off or use proxyUrls there.

Output

The scraped data is saved to the default dataset. Each item represents either a news article or a press release depending on the page type. You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Common Fields

url, title, publishDate, subHeading, description
author, authorTitle (news pages)
articleImage, imageCaption, sourceText (lead image)
images (array of image objects: imageUrl, captionText, sourceText)
contactName, contactEmail, contactPhone, aboutSection (press releases)

All absent values are explicitly set to null.

Example Output - Press Release

{
  "url": "https://www.constructiondive.com/press-release/20260330-southern-impression-homes-jlm-living-advance-the-eleanor-bloomingdale-b/",
  "title": "Southern Impression Homes & JLM Living Advance The Eleanor - Bloomingdale BTR Community | Construction Dive",
  "publishDate": "March 30, 2026",
  "contactName": "Kara Pound",
  "contactEmail": "[email protected]",
  "contactPhone": "386-237-4500",
  "description": "JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Southern Impression Homes (SIH), a leading full-service property development group specializing in Build-to-Rent (BTR) communities, announces its joint project with JLM Living on The Eleanor - Bloomingdale, a 253-unit single-family rental community currently under construction on Little Neck Road in Bloomingdale, Georgia, just outside Savannah. Vertical construction commenced in October 2025, with the first units expected in April 2026 and full project completion slated for early 2027. \"The Eleanor - Bloomingdale demonstrates our ability to seamlessly integrate design, development, and construction into a single execution platform,\" said Chris Funk, President and CEO of Southern Impression Homes...",
  "aboutSection": "Search Home Topics Commercial Corporate News Economy Infrastructure Labor Safety Tech Sustainability Legal/Regs Deep Dive Opinion Library Events Press Releases Get Construction Dive in your inbox...",
  "subHeading": "253-unit Bloomingdale development highlights strength of vertically-integrated partnership",
  "author": null,
  "authorTitle": null,
  "articleImage": null,
  "imageCaption": null,
  "sourceText": null,
  "images": []
}

Example Output - News Article

{
  "url": "https://www.constructiondive.com/news/data-centers-community-benefits-spec-new-york-build-panel/816335/",
  "title": "Data centers must prove their community worth, panel says",
  "publishDate": "April 2, 2026",
  "author": "Kate Serpico",
  "authorTitle": "Senior Editor",
  "subHeading": "As AI drives demand for data centers, developers face growing pressure to deliver tangible local benefits",
  "description": "NEW YORK — Data center developers rushing to build facilities to support artificial intelligence applications must prove their worth to local communities, industry experts said at a panel discussion here...",
  "articleImage": "https://www.constructiondive.com/imgproxy/...",
  "imageCaption": "Aerial view of data center construction site",
  "sourceText": "Permission granted by Construction Photography",
  "images": [
    {
      "imageUrl": "https://www.constructiondive.com/imgproxy/...",
      "captionText": "Interior view of data center server room",
      "sourceText": "Construction Photography"
    }
  ],
  "contactName": null,
  "contactEmail": null,
  "contactPhone": null,
  "aboutSection": null
}

Notes and Limitations

The actor depends on the current Construction Dive HTML structure; update selectors if the site changes.
Pages are collected one at a time to avoid being blocked, so large runs take longer.
Pagination links that are relative (e.g., ?page=2) are resolved against the current page URL to produce absolute next-page links.

Contact the maintainer or open an issue in the repo for improvements.

Image Credit: https://www.constructiondive.com/

Construction Dive Scraper price

Start with one monthly volume— 100,000 rows. The chart compares Bytewells (rent plus usage from recent runs, compute and platform proxy) with Apify on each plan. Bars are result charges only; Apify platform fees are in the table below.

100,000 rows a month

Cheaper for high-volume use above 15,000 rows a month. Apify is cheaper under 15,000 rows/mo.

Cost per 1,000 rows

The estimate on the card is about $0.55 per 1,000 rows from recent settled runs (compute at 0.87 CU, or $0.13, plus platform proxy when the Actor uses it). A compute unit is 1 GB of memory for one hour, at $0.15. The curve is the spread of that rate. The median is a typical run. The 99th percentile is a slow one.

Throughput

Throughput from the same recent succeeded runs, counted the other way. Startup stays in the time, so a long run returns rows a little faster than this.

Results per CU: 1,152
Results per minute: 19.2

Monthly cost against Apify

Bytewells is monthly rental plus usage, with no platform commitment. Apify charges a plan fee plus per-Article usage. The cost column is only that usage at the row count below; commitments are the platform subscription.

Construction Dive Scraper monthly cost at 100,000 rows
100,000 rows a month	Monthly commitment	Usage cost
Bytewells	No commitment	$87.35
Bytewells rental	—	$32
Bytewells usage	—	$55.35
Bytewells compute (est.)	—	$13.02
Apify Free	$0	$590
Apify Starter	$19/mo	$490
Apify Scale	$199/mo	$390
Apify Business	$999/mo	$290

How this estimate is made

The cost per 1,000 rows divides the compute from recent succeeded runs in the last 90 days by the rows those runs returned. Startup time on a short run stays in the rate, so a long month is priced a little high. The median and the 99th percentile are per-run rates from the same window.

Honest verdict

15,000

rows a month

This is the breakeven number.

Occasional user

Under 15,000 rows a month, Apify is cheaper.

See it on Apify

Power users

Power users above 15,000 rows a month cost less here.

Input

Preview of the input form. Rent the Actor to fill it in and start runs from the console.

Fields

Start URLs

startUrls

URLs to start with.

Maximum number of items

maxItems

Maximum number of articles that will be extracted.

Proxy configuration

proxyConfiguration

TypeCountry

Defaults to a US residential proxy for the fastest and most reliable runs. The scraper also works without a proxy, as it handles the site's bot protection on its own.

API

Bytewells speaks the Apify API. Existing integrations keep working: point apify-client at https://bytewells.com/api and use your Bytewells API token (Console → Settings → API access). The Actor ID is lexis-solutions/constructiondive-com-scraper (or lexis-solutions~constructiondive-com-scraper in URLs).

JavaScript · apify-client

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({
  token: process.env.BYTEWELLS_TOKEN,
  baseUrl: 'https://bytewells.com/api',
});

const input = {
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.constructiondive.com/"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  }
};

const run = await client.actor('lexis-solutions/constructiondive-com-scraper').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Python · apify-client

import os
from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient(os.environ["BYTEWELLS_TOKEN"], api_url="https://bytewells.com/api")

run_input = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.constructiondive.com/"
        }
    ],
    "maxItems": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
    }
}

run = client.actor("lexis-solutions/constructiondive-com-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
items = client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items
print(items)

HTTP · curl

curl -X POST "https://bytewells.com/api/v2/acts/lexis-solutions~constructiondive-com-scraper/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BYTEWELLS_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"startUrls":[{"url":"https://www.constructiondive.com/"}],"maxItems":5,"proxyConfiguration":{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"],"apifyProxyCountry":"US"}}'

Runs are billed as compute from your credit balance. Paid Actors need an active rental or trial; otherwise the API answers 402 rental-required.

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About

What does the Construction Dive Scraper do?

What data can I extract from ConstructionDive.com with this scraper?

How to use this Scraper

Input

Supported URL Examples

Proxy

Output

Common Fields

Example Output - Press Release

Example Output - News Article

Notes and Limitations

Construction Dive Scraper price

Cost per 1,000 rows

Throughput

Monthly cost against Apify

How this estimate is made

Honest verdict

Input

Fields

Start URLs

Maximum number of items

Proxy configuration

API

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About

What does the Construction Dive Scraper do?

What data can I extract from ConstructionDive.com with this scraper?

How to use this Scraper

Input

Supported URL Examples

Proxy

Output

Common Fields

Example Output - Press Release

Example Output - News Article

Notes and Limitations

Cost per 1,000 rows

Throughput

Monthly cost against Apify

How this estimate is made

Honest verdict

Input

Fields

Start URLs

Maximum number of items

Proxy configuration

API

JavaScript · apify-client

Python · apify-client

HTTP · curl

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