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News & Blog Article Extractor (Text, Author, Date, Image)

Extract clean article data from any news or blog URL. Input: articleUrls, sectionUrls. Output (JSON/CSV): one row per item with url, headline, authors, datePublished, publisher, section, wordCount, readingTimeMinutes, image.

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What it's for

Media monitoring and press-mention tracking
Feed articles to an LLM for summaries or sentiment
Build research datasets of articles with authors and dates

Example input

{
 "articleUrls": [
  "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/",
  "https://www.bbc.com/news",
  "https://example.com/missing-page-404"
 ],
 "sectionUrls": [
  "https://hnrss.org/frontpage"
 ],
 "maxArticlesPerSection": 4
}

Example output

{
  "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/",
  "headline": "What is web scraping?",
  "description": "The basics of web scraping: what it is, how it works, real-world use cases, and how to get started.",
  "authors": [
    "David Barton"
  ],
  "datePublished": "2024-10-15T14:32:00.000Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-09T17:13:43.000Z",
  "publisher": "Apify Blog",
  "section": null,
  "keywords": [
    "Programming"
  ],
  "image": "https://storage.ghost.io/c/f2/6e/f26ec999-9a90-4aee-a0d4-9b3ca2bb668f/content/images/2024/04/what-is-web-scraping-complete-guide.png",
  "language": "en",
  "wordCount": 1427,
  "readingTimeMinutes": 6,
  "isArticle": true,
  "markdown": "Web scraping is the process of automatically extracting data from a website. You use a program called a web scraper to access a web page, in…",
  "extractedAt": "2026-10-12T04:44:03.199Z"
}

Input reference

Field	Type	Notes
`articleUrls`	array	Direct links to articles or blog posts.
`sectionUrls`	array	Homepages, category pages or feeds to discover article links from.
`maxArticlesPerSection`	integer	Max articles per section
`includeMarkdown`	boolean	Include Markdown
`includeText`	boolean	Include plain text
`mainContentOnly`	boolean	Main content only
`includeLinks`	boolean	Keep links in Markdown
`respectRobots`	boolean	Respect robots.txt
`maxConcurrency`	integer	Max concurrency

Pricing

Pay per event: Article extracted $0.001. Plus Apify's small per-run start fee. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit to try it.

How to run

Open the Store page and click Try for free.
Fill in the input (or paste the example JSON in the JSON tab).
Click Start, then export results as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it via the Apify API.
Optional: add a Schedule and a webhook/Slack/email integration for ongoing monitoring.

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