Articles Extractor

Overview

The Articles Extractor turns news articles, blog posts, and online publications into clean structured data. Its HTML parsing engine pulls full article text with formatting, headlines, subheadings, author info, publication dates, featured images, reading-time estimates, and SEO metadata — while stripping ads, navigation, and boilerplate. It processes thousands of URLs in parallel for large-scale collection. Each run accepts a list of article URLs plus options like the alternative parser, saved article HTML, custom headers, header generation, and residential proxies. Export results in JSON, CSV, XML, RSS, or HTML straight into analytics pipelines, content systems, RAG knowledge bases, or research databases.

Key Features

Input Parameters

Sample Output

[
  {
    "url": "https://example.com/news/sample-article",
    "title": "Sample Extracted Article",
    "author": "Jane Reporter",
    "published": "2026-09-01T10:00:00.000Z",
    "ttr": 240,
    "source": "example.com",
    "extracted_at": "2026-09-11T14:30:00Z"
  }
]

How to Use

1. 1

   Sign up for free: Create a free ParseFlow account to access professional extraction tools.

2. 2

   Set your parameters: Paste the article URLs into the Articles Extractor configuration.

3. 3

   Download your data: Click Start, wait a few minutes, and download your dataset as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

API Example

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_API_TOKEN' });

const input = {
    "startUrls": [{"url": "https://example.com/news/sample-article"}],
    "alternativeParser": false
};

const run = await client.actor("web.harvester/articles-extractor").call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Pricing Structure

Flat-rate rental from $15/month plus Apify platform usage, which gets cheaper on higher subscription plans. Check the store pricing tab for current usage rates.

Limitations

• Paywalled or login-gated articles can only be extracted if accessible without authentication.
• Heavily interactive pages may be better served by a full-browser scraper.

Frequently Asked Questions