
Smart Article Extractor
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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
276
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
33 days
Last modified
3 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9 "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.theguardian.com" }],
10 "isUrlArticleDefinition": {
11 "minDashes": 4,
12 "hasDate": True,
13 "linkIncludes": [
14 "article",
15 "storyid",
16 "?p=",
17 "id=",
18 "/fpss/track",
19 ".html",
20 "/content/",
21 ],
22 },
23 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
24 "extendOutputFunction": """($) => {
25 const result = {};
26 // Uncomment to add a title to the output
27 // result.pageTitle = $('title').text().trim();
28
29 return result;
30}""",
31}
32
33# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
34run = client.actor("lukaskrivka/article-extractor-smart").call(run_input=run_input)
35
36# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
37print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
38for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
39 print(item)
40
41# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
Scrape and download articles and news API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Smart Article Extractor API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
pip install apify-client
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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.