# Extract blog article text for content research

**Use case:** 

Extract clean text, title, author and available metadata from one public Apify blog article. Replace the URL with a blog or news article for content research. This starter uses one URL, a 120-second timeout and a $0.03 maximum charge per run. Unavailable metadata may be empty.

## Input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
    }
  ],
  "language": "",
  "requestTimeout": 10,
  "maxConcurrency": 3,
  "maxRetries": 0,
  "fetchImages": true,
  "browserUserAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/121.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "articleURL": {
    "label": "URL",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "sourceURL": {
    "label": "Source",
    "format": "link"
  },
  "articleTitle": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleAuthors": {
    "label": "Authors",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articlePublishDate": {
    "label": "Published (source value)",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleLanguage": {
    "label": "Language",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleText": {
    "label": "Content",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleTopImage": {
    "label": "Main Image",
    "format": "image"
  },
  "articleAllImages": {
    "label": "All Images",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleVideos": {
    "label": "Videos",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleKeywords": {
    "label": "Keywords",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleSummary": {
    "label": "Summary",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleMetaDescription": {
    "label": "Meta Description",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "articleMetaKeywords": {
    "label": "Meta Keywords",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Words",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "characterCount": {
    "label": "Characters",
    "format": "number"
  },
  "scrapeMethod": {
    "label": "Method",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "scrapeSuccess": {
    "label": "Success",
    "format": "boolean"
  },
  "scrapeErrorMessage": {
    "label": "Error",
    "format": "text"
  },
  "scrapedAt": {
    "label": "Scraped At",
    "format": "date"
  }
}
```

## How it works

### 1. Sign up on Apify or log in

The Article Text Extractor | News and Blog API Actor is ready to run with the inputs already set for "Extract blog article text for content research". [Sign up or log in](https://console.apify.com/create-task-from-example/HqYsa0jwNenCW5RGB) and you'll land in Apify Console with a copy of this exact task.

### 2. Start the "Extract blog article text for content research" task

The Article Text Extractor | News and Blog API Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like start urls, request timeout, and more, to match your specific use case.

### 3. Receive the "Extract blog article text for content research" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as URL, source, title, and more.

### 4. Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also [run the "Extract blog article text for content research" task via API](https://apify.com/xtech/article-extractor.md).

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [Article Text Extractor | News and Blog API](https://apify.com/xtech/article-extractor.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/xtech/article-extractor.md) to learn more, explore other use cases, and run it yourself.


## How to integrate an Actor?

This Task's input is already configured above. Use it as-is rather than inventing a new one.

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 full API examples (JavaScript, Python, CLI, MCP, OpenAPI), see this Task's Actor page: https://apify.com/xtech/article-extractor.md

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`).