# News Article Extractor: Full Text, Author, Date & Metadata (`physealabs/news-article-extractor`) Actor

Paste article URLs or RSS feeds and get clean full text plus headline, authors, publish date, publisher, keywords and image from JSON-LD and OpenGraph. Built by Physea Labs (Liminal). Launch Sale: 90% OFF for the first week. $0.002 per article.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/physealabs/news-article-extractor.md
- **Developed by:** [jay casey](https://apify.com/physealabs) (community)
- **Categories:** News, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 article extracteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## News Article Extractor: Full Text, Author, Date & Metadata

Paste article links or RSS feeds and get each story as clean text with its headline, authors, publish and update dates, publisher, section, keywords and lead image. Related links, share buttons, newsletter boxes and ads are removed.

🚀 **Launch Sale: 90% OFF for the first week!** Prices below are the regular rates; launch-week runs are billed at a tenth of them.

### What can it do?

| What you get | Features |
|---|---|
| 📰 Full article text, paragraphs and subheadings kept | ⚡ Plain HTTP, no browser: 4 articles in under a second |
| 👤 Authors, publish date, modified date, publisher | 🧠 Metadata from JSON-LD NewsArticle, OpenGraph and meta tags |
| 🏷️ Section, keywords, lead image, language, paywall flag | 📡 RSS / Atom feeds expanded into their newest articles |

### Who this is for

- Media monitoring and PR clipping with real publish dates
- Feeding news into LLM summaries, sentiment or RAG
- Research datasets of articles from a list of outlets
- Newsletters and digests built from RSS feeds

### What you get back

| Field | Type | What you get | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| `title` | `string` | Headline | `Zuckerberg wins Meta deal...` |
| `authors` | `array` | Author names | `["Dearbail Jordan", "Kali Hays"]` |
| `published_at` | `string` | Publish date (ISO 8601 as published) | `2026-10-22T16:16:49.796Z` |
| `publisher` | `string` | Outlet name | `BBC News` |
| `text` | `string` | Clean article text | `Meta has agreed to a new deal...` |
| `word_count` | `integer` | Words in the text | `844` |
| `reading_time_min` | `integer` | Minutes at 230 wpm | `4` |
| `keywords` | `array` | Tags / keywords | `["Programming"]` |
| `image` | `string` | Lead image URL | `https://.../image.png` |
| `status` | `string` | `ok` or `error` | `ok` |

Every run also writes `RUN_SUMMARY.json` to the key-value store (counts, spend-limit flag, pricing).

### What you need to provide

| Field | Type | What it does | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| `articleUrls` | `array` | Links to news stories or blog posts. | `[{"url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"}]` |
| `feedUrls` | `array` | Feed URLs; the newest articles in each feed are extracted. | `["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"]` |
| `maxArticlesPerFeed` | `integer` | Newest N items taken from each feed. | `3` |
| `maxArticles` | `integer` | Hard cap across URLs and feeds. | `100` |
| `includeHtml` | `boolean` | Add the page's raw HTML to each row (large). | `false` |
| `maxConcurrency` | `integer` | Articles fetched at the same time. | `5` |

#### Quick start

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Press **Start**: the sample input finishes in under a minute with no API keys or setup.
3. Replace the sample with your own values and run again.
4. Open the dataset, or export it as JSON, CSV or Excel.

### Pricing

🚀 **Launch Sale: 90% OFF for the first week!**

- `article-extracted`: **$0.002** per article with readable text ($2 per 1,000 articles).
- Failed, paywalled and empty pages are not charged.
- Set a max cost per run in the run options and the run stops cleanly when it hits it.
- Normal Apify platform usage applies.

### Limits and honest notes

- Pages are fetched without a browser. Hard paywalls and JavaScript-only sites return an `error` row and are not charged.
- Text is extracted heuristically; very unusual layouts may include a stray caption or miss a sidebar quote.
- Dates and authors are as the publisher declares them.
- No other Apify actor is called: everything is collected in-house over plain HTTP.

### Run it from code

Same input as the Console sample:

```json
{
  "articleUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
    }
  ],
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 3
}
```

```sh
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/physealabs~news-article-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=$APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d @input.json
```

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient
items = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN").actor("physealabs/news-article-extractor").call(run_input={"articleUrls": [{"url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"}], "feedUrls": ["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"], "maxArticlesPerFeed": 3})
```

It also works from Zapier, Make, n8n and Apify schedules.

### About Physea Labs · Liminal

Built and maintained by **Physea Labs**: the same extraction layer that feeds [Liminal](https://physea.ai), our grounded research and decision engine. If it is good enough to feed Liminal's citations, it is good enough for your pipeline.

# Actor input Schema

## `articleUrls` (type: `array`):

Links to news stories or blog posts.

## `feedUrls` (type: `array`):

Feed URLs; the newest articles in each feed are extracted.

## `maxArticlesPerFeed` (type: `integer`):

Newest N items taken from each feed.

## `maxArticles` (type: `integer`):

Hard cap across URLs and feeds.

## `includeHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Add the page's raw HTML to each row (large).

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Articles fetched at the same time.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "articleUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
    }
  ],
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 3,
  "maxArticles": 100,
  "includeHtml": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `articles` (type: `string`):

One row per item; error rows explain anything that was skipped and are never charged.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "articleUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
        }
    ],
    "feedUrls": [
        "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
    ],
    "maxArticlesPerFeed": 3
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("physealabs/news-article-extractor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "articleUrls": [{ "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/" }],
    "feedUrls": ["https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"],
    "maxArticlesPerFeed": 3,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("physealabs/news-article-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "articleUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
    }
  ],
  "feedUrls": [
    "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml"
  ],
  "maxArticlesPerFeed": 3
}' |
apify call physealabs/news-article-extractor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,physealabs/news-article-extractor"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/F5UFnS4H0dL1Ko3uu/builds/ZzGYhqYLkRpBJyYZj/openapi.json