Send article URLs or RSS and Atom feeds and Inkpluck returns each article without menus, ads and footers: clean text, Markdown, title, cleaned author list, ISO publish date, language, top image and a paywall flag. It fetches pages over plain HTTP (no browser), retries blocked pages through a proxy, and charges only for articles that were extracted. Feed monitor mode extracts each new post once.
Who this is for
AI and RAG builders feeding articles to an LLM, newsletter and media-monitoring teams, researchers collecting news corpora, and developers moving off newspaper3k.
What the output looks like
Real test run, 23 Sep 2026
| URL | Title | Authors | Published | Words | Charged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| blog.cloudflare.com/vary-support/ | We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary | Alex Krivit, Zaidoon Abd Al Hadi | 2026-09-22 | 2695 | yes |
| techcrunch.com/2026/09/23/meta-introduces-camera-free-ai-glasses/ | Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses | Sarah Perez | 2026-09-23 | 657 | yes |
| smashingmagazine.com/2026/09/stop-treating-css-container-q… | Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries | Victor Ayomipo | 2026-09-16 | 2239 | yes |
| ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/東京 | 東京 | ウィキメディアプロジェクトへの貢献者 | 2002-11-08 | 16168 | yes |
| bbc.com/news | (home page, not an article) | 1281 | no, free |
How to do it
- Open Inkpluck on Apify and paste article URLs, or add RSS/Atom feed URLs.
- Run it; each article becomes one record with text, Markdown, authors, date and language.
- Download JSON, CSV or Excel, or call it by API from your pipeline.
What it costs compared with the alternatives
Published prices, read on each vendor's own pricing page (2026-10-10):
| Tool | Price | Free tier |
|---|---|---|
| Inkpluck (Apify tool) | $0.001 per article; failures free | Apify's monthly free credit covers a first batch |
| Apify: easyapi article-content-extractor | from $2.99 per 1,000 results, plus Apify platform usage | Apify free credit |
| Apify: tugelbay article-extractor | $0.005 per article on the free Apify plan; from $3.50 per 1,000 on higher plans | Apify free credit |
| Diffbot | Startup $299/month (250,000 credits); Plus $899/month | free plan, 10,000 credits a month |
Pricing pages: Apify: easyapi article-content-extractor, Apify: tugelbay article-extractor, Diffbot.
Why this approach
- $1 per 1,000 articles, against $2.99 per 1,000 (easyapi) and $0.005 per article on the free plan (tugelbay) for the two closest Apify extractors.
- Failures cost nothing, and one switch charges only for real articles, so a home page in your list is free.
- Markdown ready for an LLM, plus structured fields: authors, ISO date, language, top image and a paywall flag.
- RSS and Atom feeds with monitor mode: each new post is extracted and charged once.
- Plain HTTP, about 0.5 to 3 s per article, with no special permissions on your Apify account.
FAQ
Is there a cheap article extraction API?
Inkpluck costs $0.001 per extracted article through Apify's API, and nothing for failures.
Why not Diffbot?
Diffbot is a large knowledge-graph platform with a free tier of 10,000 credits and paid plans from $299/month. If you need clean article text and metadata from URLs or feeds, Inkpluck does that for $1 per 1,000 articles with no plan.
Why not easyapi's or tugelbay's extractor?
easyapi charges from $2.99 per 1,000 results plus platform usage; tugelbay charges $0.005 per article on the free Apify plan and from $3.50 per 1,000 on higher plans. Inkpluck is $1 per 1,000 and failures are free.
Does it get past paywalls?
No. It fetches public pages only, with no login and no paywall bypass, and flags paywalled pages. The text still belongs to its publisher: fine for analysis, search and summaries; ask before republishing.
Pricing
$0.001 per article (1,000 articles = $1). Failures are free, and an option charges only for real articles (not home pages). Pay per result through Apify, no subscription.
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Published automatically by CyberMax. Every number above comes from the linked public data; nothing is estimated.
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