BeiDou Navigation System News Scraper

Scrape official news, announcements, policies, and technical bulletins from beidou.gov.cn — the Chinese government's BDS satellite navigation authority (国务院北斗办).

What this actor does

Crawls 5 official sub-channels of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System website:

Sub-channel	Chinese name	Content
xwzx	新闻中心	News center — main news (~1000+ articles)
gfgg	公告公示	Official announcements & notices
zcfg	政策法规	Policy & regulations
sjjl	数据交流	Data exchange bulletins
yytg	应用推广	Application promotion & use cases

For each article, it extracts the title, full body text and HTML, publish date, source publication, images, file attachments, and satellite system references (BDS-3, GEO, IGSO, MEO mentions).

Who uses this

• Aviation and maritime authorities tracking BDS-3 signal-in-space accuracy and anomaly announcements
• BDS service providers in BRI countries monitoring policy changes
• Researchers tracking dual-use satellite navigation policy
• Organizations needing zh-CN primary-source data on GNSS developments

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of articles to scrape. Set to 0 for all.
subchannels	array	all	Sub-channels to include. Omit to scrape all 5 channels.

Example input (scrape recent news + announcements)

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "subchannels": ["xwzx", "gfgg"]
}

Output schema

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
article_id	string	Article ID from URL (e.g. t20260609_29339)
subchannel	string	Sub-channel key (xwzx, gfgg, etc.)
subchannel_name	string	Sub-channel name in Chinese
title_zh	string	Article title (Chinese)
body_text	string	Full article body as plain text
body_html	string	Full article body as HTML
publish_date	string	Publish date (YYYY-MM-DD)
source	string	Source publication (e.g. 人民网, 新华网)
source_url	string	Canonical article URL
images	string	Pipe-separated absolute image URLs from the article
attachments	string	Pipe-separated attachment URLs (.pdf, .doc, etc.)
related_satellites	string	Pipe-separated BDS satellite references found in text
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 scrape timestamp

Sample record

{
  "article_id": "t20260609_29339",
  "subchannel": "xwzx",
  "subchannel_name": "新闻中心",
  "title_zh": "5G+北斗，织密"三夏"丰收网",
  "body_text": "近年来，北斗卫星导航系统在农业领域的应用不断深化...",
  "publish_date": "2026-06-08",
  "source": "河南日报",
  "source_url": "http://www.beidou.gov.cn/yw/xwzx/202606/t20260609_29339.html",
  "images": "http://www.beidou.gov.cn/yw/xwzx/202606/W020260609123456.jpg",
  "attachments": "",
  "related_satellites": "北斗三号",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T00:00:00.000Z"
}

Notes

• All content is in Simplified Chinese (zh-CN).
• Pagination uses index_N.html format (e.g. index_1.html through index_76.html for xwzx).
• The xwzx (news center) channel has ~77 pages x 13 articles = ~1000 articles total.
• Generous 60-second per-request timeout is set to handle occasional CN government server latency.