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Given a news website URL, discover and extract articles with full metadata with title, authors, publish date, body text, top image, keywords, and summary. Works with any news site via sitemap or HTML discovery.

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Crawler Bros

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You can access the News Source Crawler programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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News Source Crawler OpenAPI definition

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