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El Mercurio Chile News Dataset — Four Times a Day

Q: Why do all articles have the same time?

El Mercurio publishes as a daily edition, and Created Time carries the edition date — 00:00:00 on every sampled row. Use the run time if you need to know when an article first appeared online.

El Mercurio is Chile's newspaper of record, and this file captures its full edition, four times a day — 14 columns covering headline, standfirst, full Spanish article text, journalist, section, publication date, permalink, article ID and images.

It is the whole paper, not just the website front page. The supplied sample holds 50 articles across 18 sections from one day — national, economy, politics, the Revista del Campo farming supplement and letters to the editor.

This data is available for download immediately after purchase

The file already exists, because this pipeline runs four times a day whether you buy it or not. Most vendors start collecting after you order — which is why they quote a lead time. Here the most recent file is in your account within minutes of payment, with an API key issued at the same time.

$499.00per month

All prices are in USD · GST or VAT added on the invoice

Every article the source publishes

14 fields, all listed below

This dataset was last updated on 22-Sep-2026

Delivered four times a day · cancel any time

Excel and CSV included · JSON and Parquet on request

Please download the sample first and check the fields against what you need. Data files are not refundable once delivered.

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What you get, in plain terms

Four things. The paper Chile's business and political elite read, structured article by article.

Section in every permalink

The permalink carries the section — markets, politics, industry — so you can filter the feed to the desks you need without a separate field.

Economy and agriculture in depth

Economía and the Revista del Campo supplement cover Codelco, avocado demand, farm attachés and trade — the sectors that drive Chile's exports.

Full Spanish text

A median of 532 words per article, with the standfirst in Media Title and the journalist named on most rows.

However you want it

Direct download, REST API, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Snowflake or SFTP. The API key comes with the dataset.

Fields included in this dataset

All 14 columns, in the exact order they appear in the file — taken straight from the sample, not from a brochure. The free sample ships with a data dictionary giving an example value for each one.

TitleMessageCreated TimeSource DomainPublication NameJournalistCountry Media TitlePermalinkReachWeb Shares Article IDImage URLs

Sample rows from the real file

Real rows from the sample file, not an illustration. The supplied sample has 50 articles with all 14 columns.

Sample is free, no signup and no card. Check the fields before you buy — files are not refundable once delivered.

Coverage

Captured four times a day across El Mercurio's digital edition (beta.elmercurio.com). One row is one article, identified by its Article ID and permalink.

Metric	In the supplied sample	What it tells you
Articles	50, all dated 17 August 2026	One day's edition
Sections	18	Nacional 8 · Economía 7 · Internacional 5 · Campo 4 · Política 4
Median article length	532 words	Up to 1,499 words
Journalist named	39 of 50	Including EFE wire copy
Images	40 of 50	Photos from the edition
Non-article items	4 of 50	A sudoku, letters and two rows with no headline

Only need economy, politics or the agriculture supplement? Send the sections and we will price a narrower file.

Historical data

The last 30 days come with the dataset. Beyond that we hold El Mercurio records from February 2025 onwards.

Ask about historical data

Need more data points?

We can extend this dataset beyond the standard 14 columns — a section field and an English translation are the most requested additions.

Request custom fields

“Chilean policy shifts show up in El Mercurio before anywhere else. Having the full edition structured by section saved our analysts hours every week.”

Camila Rojas · Political Risk AnalystLatin America advisory firm, Santiago · downloaded the sample, bought the same week

What people use this dataset for

Media monitoring and PR

Track every mention of your company, executives and competitors the day it is published.

Investment and risk teams

Feed timestamped headlines and article text into event studies, sentiment and alerting models.

Market and policy intelligence

Follow a sector, a country or a regulator through the outlet its decision-makers read.

Data and AI teams

Build search, retrieval and evaluation sets on clean, structured article text with full provenance.

No procurement cycle. Card payment, invoice on the spot. Most buyers are querying data the same afternoon.

Maintenance is ours. When El Mercurio changes its layout, the file you receive does not change shape.

Analysis-ready. Loads straight into Excel, Power BI, Tableau, BigQuery or a pandas notebook.

Cancel whenever. The feed runs to the end of the period you paid for, then stops. No notice, no fee.

About El Mercurio news data

Founded in 1900, El Mercurio is Chile's leading national daily and the paper of record for its business and political class. Its digital edition mirrors the printed paper section by section, including supplements that most news datasets never reach.

What was in the sample

One day's edition: threats against a student exposing problems in public schools, Talca prison receiving inmates from some twenty criminal gangs, municipalities pushing back on Chinese-owned malls in the regions, the left's unease over September's anniversaries of the plebiscite and the coup, high demand lifting avocado prices, and an upset in the Frente Amplio's internal election.

The whole paper, not just the headlines

Revista del Campo, Vida Ciencia y Tecnología, El Mercurio Hace and letters to the editor sit alongside national and economy news. For anyone tracking Chilean agriculture, mining or regional politics, those sections carry detail that front-page coverage leaves out.

Two things to plan for

Created Time carries the edition date only — every sampled row reads 00:00:00. Four rows are not articles: a sudoku, letters to the editor and two items with no headline; filter them on section or on an empty Title. Journalist is blank on 11 rows.

Is collecting this data legal?

We collect only publicly accessible pages, respect robots.txt and platform terms, and align with GDPR and CCPA — the only personal data in the file is the public byline a publisher prints. Article text remains the publisher's copyright: the standard licence covers internal analysis such as monitoring, research and signal extraction, not republishing. Each row carries its permalink and publication time as documented provenance, so your legal team can review the source before you buy.

Frequently asked questions

El Mercurio publishes as a daily edition, and Created Time carries the edition date — 00:00:00 on every sampled row. Use the run time if you need to know when an article first appeared online.

Yes, because they are part of the edition — a sudoku and letters to the editor appeared in the sample. Filter them out on the section in the permalink or on an empty Title.

The source is re-captured every six hours and each run adds the articles published since the last one. You get four incremental files a day — or one rolling file through the API — so new articles reach you within hours, not the next morning.

Immediately. The pipeline runs on its schedule whether you buy it or not, so the current file is in your account within minutes, with an API key. Most vendors start collecting after you order, which is why they quote a lead time.

Yes. Real rows with every field and a data dictionary, no signup and no card. Check the fields against your own requirement before you buy — it takes five minutes and prevents almost every problem we see.

Excel and CSV are included, UTF-8 encoded so Japanese, Turkish, Spanish and other non-English text survives intact. JSON and Parquet are available on request at no extra cost — JSON is usually the better fit for long text.

Yes, and the key comes with the dataset at no extra charge. It is unmetered for the data you have bought, with a fair-use rate limit documented in the API reference.

Yes. Every row carries its permalink, and the section is part of it — markets, politics, industry and so on. Tell us which sections or keywords you need and we will price a narrower file.

Data files are not refundable once delivered, which is why the sample matters. One exception: if a delivered file does not match the field list on this page, that is our error and we fix it or refund that month.

Any time from your account. The feed keeps running until the end of the period you have paid for, then stops. No notice period and no cancellation fee.

We email you 30 days before any field is added, renamed or removed, and we never remove one inside a period you have already paid for.

The last 30 days are included. Beyond that we hold El Mercurio articles from February 2025 onwards. Ask and we will confirm exactly what exists for the topics you care about.

Internal use across your whole organisation with unlimited seats. Article text stays the publisher's copyright, so republishing it, reselling the data or training a model you sell needs separate rights — tell us what you have in mind.

Of course, though nothing on this page requires it. If you would rather have a call before buying, use the contact form and ask for the datasets team.

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El Mercurio Chile News Dataset — Four Times a Day

What you get, in plain terms

Section in every permalink

Economy and agriculture in depth

Full Spanish text

However you want it

Fields included in this dataset

Sample rows from the real file

Coverage

Historical data

Need more data points?

What people use this dataset for

Media monitoring and PR

Investment and risk teams

Market and policy intelligence

Data and AI teams

About El Mercurio news data

What was in the sample

The whole paper, not just the headlines

Two things to plan for

Is collecting this data legal?

Frequently asked questions

Why do all articles have the same time?

Are puzzles and letters included?

What does “four times a day” mean?

How soon can I download the data after paying?

Is the sample really free?

What format does it come in?

Can I get it as an API instead of a file?

Can I get only certain sections or topics?

Is it refundable?

Can I cancel?

What if the fields change?

Do you have historical data?

What licence do I get?

Can I speak to someone first?

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