DatacenterDynamics Scraper

What does the DatacenterDynamics Scraper do?

The DatacenterDynamics Scraper collects articles from DatacenterDynamics (DCD), a leading news source for the data center industry. It covers data center construction and investment, cloud and hyperscale, power and cooling, networking, colocation, AI infrastructure and more. Use it to monitor data center news, track coverage of specific companies or technologies, or build datasets for market research and trend analysis.

It scrapes three sections:

• News: daily industry news.
• Analysis (shown on the site as "Long Reads"): in-depth features and interviews.
• Opinions (shown on the site as "Industry Views"): articles written by industry experts, some of them sponsored.

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

• Title and URL
• Section (News, Long Reads or Industry Views) and topic channel (e.g. "The Cloud & Hybrid Channel")
• Sub-heading
• Publication date
• Authors, with links to their profiles
• Whether the article is sponsored
• Tags
• Main image, plus every image in the article with its caption
• Full article text
• Whether the article has a members-only section

How to use the DatacenterDynamics Scraper

1. Add one or more DatacenterDynamics URLs to Start URLs: the News, Analysis or Opinions listing, a tag page, or a single article.
2. Set Maximum number of items to choose how many articles to collect per start URL.
3. Run the scraper and download your data as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML.

Input

• startUrls (array, required): DatacenterDynamics URLs to start from.
• maxItems (integer): Maximum number of articles to collect per start URL. Default: 5.
• proxyConfiguration (object): Proxy settings. Default: Apify Proxy, which rotates IP addresses. The site limits how many pages one IP can load per minute, so rotating IPs keep large runs fast.

Supported URLs

Page type	Example
News	https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/
Analysis (Long Reads)	https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/
Opinions (Industry Views)	https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/
Tag page	https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/tags/coreweave/
Single article	https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/rackspace-signs-capacity-agreements-with-together-ai-and-blacksmith/

Tip: The News, Analysis and Opinions listings go back through the full archive (News goes back to 2006). If you add the homepage, the scraper uses the News listing instead.

Example input

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/" },
        { "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/analysis/" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 5,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }
}

Output

Each dataset item is one article. Missing values are returned as null, and missing lists as [].

Example output

{
    "url": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/rackspace-signs-capacity-agreements-with-together-ai-and-blacksmith/",
    "section": "News",
    "channel": "The Cloud & Hybrid Channel",
    "title": "Rackspace signs capacity agreements with Together AI and Blacksmith",
    "subHeading": "Deployment planned for 2027",
    "publishedDate": "2026-11-12",
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Georgia Butler",
            "profileUrl": "https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/profile/georgia-butler/"
        }
    ],
    "isSponsored": false,
    "tags": ["AMD", "AMD Epyc", "Blacksmith", "Nvidia", "Nvidia GB300 NVL72", "Rackspace", "Together AI"],
    "imageUrl": "https://media.datacenterdynamics.com/media/images/23104_Rackspace.png.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.jpg",
    "images": [
        {
            "imageUrl": "https://media.datacenterdynamics.com/media/images/23104_Rackspace.png.original.jpg",
            "caption": "Rackspace"
        }
    ],
    "content": "Rackspace has signed two customer agreements for compute capacity.\n\nThe first agreement is with neocloud startup Together AI and is a multi-year AI infrastructure agreement under which Rackspace will provide and operate dedicated Nvidia GB300 NVL72 infrastructure for Together AI...",
    "hasMembersOnlyContent": false
}

Notes and limitations

• maxItems applies to each start URL separately. Two start URLs with maxItems: 5 can return up to 10 items. An article found under two start URLs is returned once.
• Tag pages show one page of the most recent content only. Podcasts, magazines and other non-article content on tag pages are skipped.
• Some long reads have a section that DCD only shows to signed-in members. The scraper does not log in, so that section is not included; hasMembersOnlyContent is true for those articles.
• The site limits how many pages one IP can load per minute. With the default rotating proxy, the scraper loads about 100–120 pages per minute. Without a proxy, it slows down and waits whenever the site asks it to.

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