Extract article text and metadata from a URL as JSON
George Kioko
For developers and AI agents who need structured content from any web page. The run fetches the URL, detects whether it is an article, product, recipe or job post, and returns URL, title, content type, author, date, word count and the article text as a dataset row.
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