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Article Text Extractor for TTS & AI

Extract clean, readable article text from any web page, stripped of navigation, ads, and boilerplate. Feed the output directly into text-to-speech engines, summarization models, or LLM pipelines without wasting tokens on HTML noise. Bulk-process hundreds of URLs with parallel concurrency.

Features

• Readability engine — uses Mozilla Readability to isolate the main article content from page clutter
• Plain text output — returns clean text ready for TTS APIs like ElevenLabs or OpenAI TTS
• Bulk processing — extract articles from hundreds of URLs in a single run
• Metadata extraction — captures title, author byline, and excerpt alongside the article text
• Redirect tracking — follows HTTP redirects and records the final URL
• Configurable concurrency — process 1 to 50 URLs in parallel
• Backwards compatible — accepts both urls array and single url field

Input

Input Example

{
"urls":[
"https://crawlee.dev",
"https://blog.apify.com/what-is-web-scraping/"
],
"timeoutSeconds":15,
"concurrency":10
}

Output

Each URL produces one dataset item containing the extracted plain text and metadata.

Key output fields:

• inputUrl (string) — the original URL provided
• finalUrl (string) — the URL after following redirects
• status (number) — HTTP status code
• pageTitle (string) — extracted article title
• byline (string) — author name if available
• excerpt (string) — short summary of the article
• textContent (string) — the full article text, cleaned and ready for TTS or AI processing
• error (string) — error message if extraction failed, otherwise null
• checkedAt (string) — ISO 8601 timestamp of when the extraction was performed

Output Example

{
"inputUrl":"https://crawlee.dev",
"finalUrl":"https://crawlee.dev/",
"status":200,
"pageTitle":"Crawlee - Build reliable crawlers. Fast.",
"byline":null,
"excerpt":"Crawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library for Node.js.",
"textContent":"Crawlee\n\nBuild reliable crawlers. Fast.\n\nCrawlee is a web scraping and browser automation library that helps you build reliable crawlers...",
"error":null,
"checkedAt":"2025-01-15T10:30:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

The actor respects the per-run max charge limit. Processing stops automatically when the spending cap is reached.

Use Cases

• Podcast generation — turn blog posts and news articles into clean text payloads for TTS APIs
• LLM summarization — feed distraction-free article text into GPT, Claude, or other models
• Content monitoring — track article changes over time with clean text snapshots
• Accessibility tools — extract readable text for screen readers and assistive technology
• Newsletter curation — pull article text from multiple sources for digest generation

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