Extracts the main article content from a web page.

GET

https://api.scrapingduck.com/v1/scrape/article

Last modified:2026-02-11 10:03:19

Visits the specified URL, extracts the main article text, and returns it as clean HTML within a JSON envelope.

Request

Authorization

API Key

Add parameter in query

apiKey

Example:

apiKey: ********************

Query Params

Responses

🟢200

application/json

Body

🟠400

🟠401

🟠404

🔴500

Request Example

Shell

JavaScript

Java

Swift

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.scrapingduck.com/v1/scrape/article?url&deviceName&locale&timezone&disableResourceExclusion&useAdvancedSpoofing&disableJavaScript&apiKey=<api-key>'

Response Example

200 - Success

{
    "executionId": "myApiKey_a1b2c3d4",
    "results": [
        {
            "type": "VisitUrlActionResult",
            "success": true,
            "data": {
                "status": 200
            }
        },
        {
            "type": "ExtractArticleActionResult",
            "success": true,
            "data": {
                "article": {
                    "uri": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40825098",
                    "title": "Extracted Article Title",
                    "byline": "John Doe",
                    "content": "<div><p>This is the main content of the article.</p></div>",
                    "textContent": "This is the main content of the article.",
                    "excerpt": "A short summary of the article content.",
                    "author": "John Doe",
                    "siteName": "Hacker News",
                    "publicationDate": "2025-01-01T12:00:00Z",
                    "featuredImage": "https://via.placeholder.com/1200x630.png",
                    "language": "en",
                    "timeToRead": "00:05:00",
                    "isReadable": true
                }
            }
        }
    ],
    "meta": {
        "actionsRequested": 2,
        "actionsSucceeded": 2,
        "startedAtUtc": "2025-01-01T12:00:00Z",
        "finishedAtUtc": "2025-01-01T12:00:02Z",
        "durationMs": 2000,
        "responseSizeBytes": 1234,
        "maxActionsAllowed": 50
    }
}

Modified at 2026-02-11 10:03:19

Fetches the full scraping result including HTML content and metadata (JSON response).

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