# Extract Author Names from Blog Posts

**Use case:** 

Get the author name, article title, and publication date from any blog post. Get the data to personalize your link-building outreach.

## Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://blog.apify.com/introducing-x402-agentic-payments/"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://crawlee.dev/blog/building-gradcracker-scraper-with-crawlee"
    }
  ],
  "extractionMode": "single",
  "prompt": "Return the blog post name (as postName), author name (as authorName), and publication date (as date).",
  "maxPagesToVisit": 100,
  "maxCrawlDepth": 5
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "url": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "data": {
    "label": "Data",
    "format": "object"
  },
  "markdown": {
    "label": "Markdown",
    "format": "text"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [AI Web Scraper](https://apify.com/apify/ai-web-scraper) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/apify/ai-web-scraper) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.