# News Article Scraper - Headline, Author, Date & Full Text (`aolmo/news-article-scraper`) Actor

Turn news and blog article URLs into structured rows: headline, author, publisher, publish and update dates, section, tags, image, language, clean full text and Markdown and reading time, from JSON-LD, Open Graph and the article body. Scheduled runs flag edited articles. $0.002 per article.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aolmo/news-article-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Antonio del Olmo Tena](https://apify.com/aolmo) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 article scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

Turn news articles, blog posts and press releases into clean, structured rows. Paste article URLs and get the headline, author, publisher, publish and update dates, section, tags, main image, language, the full text without menus, ads or cookie banners, the same content as Markdown, the word count, the reading time and a short excerpt. Media monitoring, content research, LLM and RAG pipelines, newsletters and archives at $0.002 per article.

The Actor reads the public page, picks the article body (dropping navigation, sidebars, footers and widgets) and completes the fields from the structured data publishers embed for search engines (JSON-LD NewsArticle and Article, Open Graph, news meta tags). No browser, no login.

### What you get

**Article** (one row each): `headline`, `author`, `publisher`, `siteName`, `publishedAt`, `modifiedAt`, `section`, `keywords`, `articleType` (NewsArticle, Article, BlogPosting... when declared), `image`, `description`, `excerpt`, `language`, `canonical`.

**Content**: `text` (clean plain text), `markdown`, `wordCount`, `readingTimeMin`, `truncated`, `mainContentUsed`, `likelyJsRendered`, `links`, `images`.

**Source**: `url`, `finalUrl`, `status`. **Changes** on scheduled runs: `contentChanged` is true when the text or headline differs from the previous run.

Pages without readable text (paywalls, JavaScript-only sites) return a row with `likelyJsRendered` or an `error` field and are not charged.

### How to use it

1. Open the **Input** tab.
2. Add **Article URLs**, one per line (up to 500 per run).
3. Optionally cap **Max Markdown characters**.
4. Click **Start** and export the rows as JSON, CSV or Excel.
5. Schedule the Actor to be told when an article is edited.

### Input

```json
{
  "articleUrls": ["https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"],
  "maxChars": 100000
}
```

### Output

```json
{
  "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/",
  "headline": "What is web scraping?",
  "author": "Jane Roe",
  "publisher": "Apify Blog",
  "publishedAt": "2026-03-04T09:00:00.000Z",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-09-12T14:20:00.000Z",
  "section": "Web scraping",
  "keywords": ["web scraping", "data extraction"],
  "articleType": "Article",
  "image": "https://blog.apify.com/content/images/...",
  "excerpt": "Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites...",
  "language": "en",
  "text": "Web scraping is the automated extraction of data from websites. ...",
  "markdown": "# What is web scraping?\n\nWeb scraping is ...",
  "wordCount": 1840,
  "readingTimeMin": 10,
  "contentChanged": false,
  "timestamp": "2026-10-26T10:00:00.000Z"
}
```

### Pricing

Pay per event: **$0.002 per article** and **$0.001 per monitored article whose content changed** on a scheduled run. Pages without readable text are free. 1,000 articles cost $2.00.

### Limits and notes

- Paywalled articles return only what the publisher shows to visitors.
- Dates come from the publisher's structured data and are kept as published (usually ISO 8601).
- The Actor never bypasses logins, CAPTCHAs or rate limits.

### Related Actors

- **Page to Markdown**: any page as Markdown for LLMs.
- **Website to Markdown**: whole sites as Markdown.
- **Google News Scraper**: headlines by keyword to feed this Actor.
- **Website Monitor**: changes on any page.

# Actor input Schema

## `articleUrls` (type: `array`):

One per line: news articles, blog posts, press releases. Public http(s) pages. Up to 500 per run.

## `maxChars` (type: `integer`):

Longer Markdown is cut at a line break and flagged with truncated: true.

## `product` (type: `string`):

Internal. Leave as is.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "articleUrls": [
    "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
  ],
  "maxChars": 100000,
  "product": "news-article-scraper"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items: url, changed, events, data, timestamp and error (when the target failed).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "articleUrls": [
        "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("aolmo/news-article-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "articleUrls": ["https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("aolmo/news-article-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "articleUrls": [
    "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
  ]
}' |
apify call aolmo/news-article-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,aolmo/news-article-scraper"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/NI2NNvWIUxGyWvexu/builds/c5eE3cBfaS2jhiTOu/openapi.json