# Article Extractor (lean & cheap) (`x402opklaar/article-extractor-lean`) Actor

URLs in, clean article JSON out: title, author, date, full text, word count, optional Markdown. No browser, no frills — fast extraction at the lowest price. Failures are free.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/x402opklaar/article-extractor-lean.md
- **Developed by:** [Opklaar](https://apify.com/x402opklaar) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$2.00 / 1,000 page 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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Article Extractor — lean & cheap

URLs in, clean article JSON out. Main content only — navigation, ads, cookie banners, and footers stripped:

```json
{
  "url": "https://example.com/post",
  "title": "The headline",
  "author": "Jane Roe",
  "date": "2026-08-01",
  "sitename": "Example Blog",
  "description": "…",
  "text": "Full readable article text…",
  "word_count": 842,
  "markdown": "# Optional markdown version…"
}
```

### Why this one

- **Cheapest way to do the common case.** No headless browser, no proxy pool, no per-site rules — static articles, blog posts, docs, and news pages extract fine without any of that, so you shouldn't pay for it.
- **Failures are free.** You are charged per *successfully extracted* page. Fetch errors and empty extractions cost nothing and are reported in the output (`error` field).
- **LLM-ready.** Clean text (or Markdown) that drops straight into a RAG pipeline or a summarization prompt.

Pages that require JavaScript rendering will report `no main content found` — for those, use a browser-based extractor; for everything else, this is the fast cheap path.

### Support

Issues tab of this actor, or x402@opklaar.com.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

Pages to extract clean article content from.

## `markdown` (type: `boolean`):

Adds a `markdown` field with the article converted to Markdown.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
  ],
  "markdown": false
}
```

# 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 = {
    "urls": [
        "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("x402opklaar/article-extractor-lean").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 = { "urls": ["https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("x402opklaar/article-extractor-lean").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 '{
  "urls": [
    "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
  ]
}' |
apify call x402opklaar/article-extractor-lean --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,x402opklaar/article-extractor-lean"
        }
    }
}

```

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/YbfqpCgNuXXfBnYbF/builds/78SaPJRfLbhcaexiU/openapi.json