# Extract Apify documentation as Markdown

**Use case:** 

Extract one public Apify documentation page as Markdown for a knowledge base or research workflow. Direct mode avoids crawling unrelated pages. This example uses one concurrent request and a $0.01 maximum run charge; replace the source URL with the public page you need.

## Input

```json
{
  "sourceUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://docs.apify.com/actors/development/actor-definition/actor-json"
    }
  ],
  "discoveryMode": "direct",
  "maxPages": 1,
  "excludePaths": [
    "/archive"
  ],
  "contentFormat": "markdown",
  "maxConcurrency": 1
}
```

## Output

```json
{
  "title": {
    "label": "Title",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "url": {
    "label": "Page",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "canonicalUrl": {
    "label": "Canonical page",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "contentFormat": {
    "label": "Content format"
  },
  "wordCount": {
    "label": "Words",
    "format": "integer"
  },
  "etag": {
    "label": "Etag",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "lastModified": {
    "label": "Last modified",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "fetchedAt": {
    "label": "Fetched",
    "format": "string"
  },
  "provenance": {
    "label": "Provenance",
    "format": "object"
  }
}
```

## About this Actor

This example demonstrates how to use [News Website Crawler & Article Extractor](https://apify.com/xtech/news-source-crawler.md) with a specific input configuration. Visit the [Actor detail page](https://apify.com/xtech/news-source-crawler.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/news-source-crawler.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`).