Article Scraper - Any Website (Schema.org)

What does Article Scraper do?

It extracts article data from any web page that publishes schema.org structured data (JSON-LD or microdata), which most modern websites include for Google rich results. Give it a list of URLs, or a start page plus crawling, and get back clean, normalized records.

• Works on any website that publishes schema.org data (JSON-LD or microdata)
• Clean, normalized JSON ready for spreadsheets, databases and AI/RAG pipelines
• Pay only per result: no monthly rental, no minimums
• Respects robots.txt and crawl-delay automatically
• Lightweight HTTP extraction: fast and cheap, no browser needed

Use cases

• News and media monitoring
• Content metadata for SEO audits
• Publication-date and author datasets for research

Why this article scraper?

• Most competitors only support one website; ours works on any site with schema.org markup
• Several competitors have unreliable runs (<90% success in 30 days)

How it compares

Article scraper	Users (last 30 days)	Successful runs (last 30 days)	Price per 1,000 results
Google News Scraper (Pay Per Event)	639	99.6%	$4.00
Google News Scraper	250	100.0%	$2.00
Google News Scraper	193	99.4%	$2.30
This Actor	new	every release is tested on live pages first	$3.00

Apify Store data from 2026-11-02, free-plan prices. Prices and stats change; check each listing before you compare.

How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Add one or more page URLs to Start URLs (for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping).
3. Optionally enable Crawl the website to discover more pages on the same site, and narrow it with Link pattern.
4. Click Start, then download results as JSON, CSV, Excel or via the API.

Input example

{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "crawl": false
}

Output example

{
  "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping",
  "type": "Article",
  "headline": "Web scraping",
  "description": "Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or a web browser.",
  "author": "Contributors to Wikimedia projects",
  "publisher": "Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.",
  "datePublished": "2005-09-17T18:57:30Z",
  "dateModified": "2026-11-01T23:24:25Z",
  "image": null,
  "section": null,
  "keywords": null,
  "language": "en",
  "text": "Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. Web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the…",
  "wordCount": 3179,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-11-03T04:58:44.866Z"
}

Output fields

Field	Description
url	Page the record was found on
type	schema.org type (Article, NewsArticle, BlogPosting, TechArticle, ScholarlyArticle, Report)
headline	headline
description	description
author	author
publisher	publisher
datePublished	date published
dateModified	date modified
image	image
section	section
keywords	keywords
language	language
text	text
wordCount	word count
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp

Pricing

Pay per result: $3.00 per 1,000 article records, plus a tiny per-run start fee. There is no monthly rental, and you can cap spend per run with Maximum cost per run.

Integrations and API

Run it from the Apify API, the JavaScript/Python clients, Make, Zapier, n8n, LangChain or any MCP-compatible AI agent, and send results to Google Sheets, webhooks, S3 and more.

FAQ

Which websites does it work on? Any public page that embeds schema.org Article data. If a page has no such markup, the Actor returns no record for it, and you are not charged.

Is it legal to scrape article data? This Actor only reads publicly available pages, obeys robots.txt and crawl-delay, and does not log in or bypass protections. You are responsible for complying with each website's terms and with applicable laws (copyright, GDPR) for how you use the data.

Can it scrape JavaScript-only pages? It reads the server-rendered HTML, where structured data almost always lives. Pages that inject markup only via client-side JavaScript are not supported.

I need a field or site that is not supported. Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab. Requests are reviewed regularly and drive new features.