Article Summarizer (Claude)

Pass any URL or text — get back a tight summary in your chosen style (TL;DR / bullets / executive / tweet) plus topic tags + sentiment. Article body auto-extracted via trafilatura. BYO Anthropic API key. $0.005 per summary.

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Why this exists

Summarizing 50 articles a day by hand is dead time. Hiring a summarization SaaS (e.g. Lex.page, Glasp, Summari) costs $20-100/month per seat. This actor wraps trafilatura (article extraction) + Claude (summarization) in one call:

1. URL → clean article body (no nav, ads, comments)
2. Body → Claude with your chosen output style
3. Optional: topic tags + sentiment

You pay Apify $0.005 per summary; Anthropic bills you for tokens (typically $0.001-0.01 per summary at Opus 4.7 prices).

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What you get

{
  "url": "https://...",
  "title": "Bitcoin tops $70K",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "date_published": "2026-06-09",
  "sitename": "TechCrunch",
  "char_count_input": 4820,
  "summary": "**TL;DR**: BTC ...\n\n- Key 1\n- Key 2\n- Key 3\n...",
  "style": "both",
  "model": "claude-opus-4-7",
  "language": "en",
  "claude_usage": {"input_tokens": 2580, "output_tokens": 360}
}

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Output styles

style	What you get
tldr	Single paragraph TL;DR
bullets	5–7 key bullet points
both	TL;DR + bullets (default)
twitter	280-char tweet of the most surprising idea
executive	TL;DR + key implications + recommended action

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Quick start

Summarize a URL

{
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin",
  "style": "both",
  "anthropicApiKey": "sk-ant-..."
}

Summarize pasted text

{
  "text": "Long article text here...",
  "style": "tldr",
  "maxWords": 100,
  "anthropicApiKey": "sk-ant-..."
}

Executive briefing in Korean

{
  "url": "https://...",
  "style": "executive",
  "language": "ko",
  "anthropicApiKey": "sk-ant-..."
}

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Setting your Anthropic API key

You can:

1. Paste in input — secure (marked isSecret, encrypted at rest, hidden in logs)
2. Save as Apify Task — input including key is saved, click to re-run
3. Account-level Secret — register MY_ANTHROPIC_KEY in Apify Integrations, reference as @MY_ANTHROPIC_KEY in task input

Get a key at console.anthropic.com.

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Pricing

Pay-Per-Event: $0.005 per article (Apify-side).

Anthropic charges separately for tokens. Typical totals:

Article length	Input tokens	Anthropic cost (Opus 4.7)	Total
1K words	~1300	~$0.007	$0.012
3K words	~4000	~$0.020	$0.025
8K words	~10500	~$0.053	$0.058

Use Sonnet (~5x cheaper) or Haiku (~10x cheaper) for cost savings.

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Use cases

1. Newsletter automation — Daily Top-50 feed → bullet summaries
2. Research aggregation — Build a topic-tagged knowledge base
3. Slack/Discord digests — Daily summary of #blog-feed channel
4. Personal read-it-later — Long articles → 30-second TL;DR
5. SEO content audit — Compare summaries of competitor posts

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Related actors (same author)

• Web Page → Markdown Converter — Same extraction without LLM
• Web Structured Data Extractor — Extract JSON, not summary
• Tweet Thread → Article
• HTML Metadata Extractor

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