Smart Article Extractor
Pricing
Pay per usage
Smart Article Extractor
📰 Smart Article Extractor extracts articles from any scientific, academic, or news website with just one click. The extractor crawls the whole website and automatically distinguishes articles from other web pages. Download your data as HTML table, JSON, Excel, RSS feed, and more.
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Pricing
Pay per usage
103
Monthly users
279
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
34 days
Last modified
5 days ago
You can access the Smart Article Extractor 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.
1# Start Server-Sent Events (SSE) session and keep it running
2curl "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/sse?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&actors=lukaskrivka/article-extractor-smart"
3
4# Session id example output:
5# event: endpoint
6# data: /message?sessionId=9d820491-38d4-4c7d-bb6a-3b7dc542f1faUsing Scrape and download articles and news via Model Context Protocol (MCP) server
MCP server lets you use Scrape and download articles and news within your AI workflows. Send API requests to trigger actions and receive real-time results. Take the received sessionId and use it to communicate with the MCP server. The message starts the Scrape and download articles and news Actor with the provided input.
1curl -X POST "https://actors-mcp-server.apify.actor/message?token=<YOUR_API_TOKEN>&session_id=<SESSION_ID>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{
2 "jsonrpc": "2.0",
3 "id": 1,
4 "method": "tools/call",
5 "params": {
6 "arguments": {
7 "startUrls": [
8 {
9 "url": "https://www.theguardian.com"
10 }
11 ],
12 "isUrlArticleDefinition": {
13 "minDashes": 4,
14 "hasDate": true,
15 "linkIncludes": [
16 "article",
17 "storyid",
18 "?p=",
19 "id=",
20 "/fpss/track",
21 ".html",
22 "/content/"
23 ]
24 },
25 "proxyConfiguration": {
26 "useApifyProxy": true
27 },
28 "extendOutputFunction": "($) => {\\n const result = {};\\n // Uncomment to add a title to the output\\n // result.pageTitle = $('\''title'\'').text().trim();\\n\\n return result;\\n}"
29},
30 "name": "lukaskrivka/article-extractor-smart"
31 }
32}'The response should be: Accepted. You should received response via SSE (JSON) as:
1event: message
2data: {
3 "result": {
4 "content": [
5 {
6 "type": "text",
7 "text": "ACTOR_RESPONSE"
8 }
9 ]
10 }
11}Configure local MCP Server via standard input/output for Scrape and download articles and news
You can connect to the MCP Server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat or build your own. The server can run both locally and remotely, giving you full flexibility. Set up the server in the client configuration as follows:
1{
2 "mcpServers": {
3 "actors-mcp-server": {
4 "command": "npx",
5 "args": [
6 "-y",
7 "@apify/actors-mcp-server",
8 "--actors",
9 "lukaskrivka/article-extractor-smart"
10 ],
11 "env": {
12 "APIFY_TOKEN": "<YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
13 }
14 }
15 }
16}You can further access the MCP client through the Tester MCP Client, a chat user interface to interact with the server.
To get started, check out the documentation and example clients. If you are interested in learning more about our MCP server, check out our blog post.
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Pricing model
Pay per usageThis Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.
