WordPress Articles Scraper

📰 WordPress Articles Scraper

🚀 Export articles from any WordPress site in seconds. Titles, excerpts, authors, categories, tags, dates, and featured images, straight to CSV, Excel, or JSON.

This Actor pulls published articles (posts) from any public WordPress site through the standard WordPress REST API. Point it at one or more site URLs and it walks every page of posts, returning clean, structured records ready for analysis, archiving, or content research. No login, no HTML guesswork, just the data the site already publishes openly.

Millions of sites run WordPress, from independent blogs to global newsrooms. Any of them that leave the REST API on (the default) can be exported here: article title, canonical URL, plain-text excerpt, author name, category and tag lists, publish and modified timestamps, the featured image, and the numeric post ID.

👤 Who it is for	💡 What they get
Content researchers	A structured archive of a publication's articles
SEO and marketing teams	Category, tag, and cadence data across competitors
Data and ML teams	Clean article corpora for analysis and training
Journalists and analysts	Fast exports of a site's full posting history

📋 What the WordPress Articles Scraper does

• Reads the public WordPress REST API of any site you provide
• Paginates automatically across the full post archive
• Extracts title, URL, excerpt, author, categories, tags, and dates
• Captures the featured image URL for each article
• Handles multiple sites in a single run
• Returns a flat, tabular dataset ready for CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

💡 Why it matters: the data is already public through the WordPress API, but it comes paginated, HTML-encoded, and split across embedded objects. This Actor flattens all of it into rows you can actually use.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

📊 Output

Each row is one article.

Field	Description
🖼️ imageUrl	Featured image URL
📝 title	Article title (plain text)
🔗 url	Canonical article URL
✂️ excerpt	Article excerpt (plain text)
✍️ author	Author display name
🗂️ categories	List of category names
🏷️ tags	List of tag names
📅 publishedAt	Publish date (ISO 8601)
🔄 modifiedAt	Last modified date (ISO 8601)
🆔 postId	Numeric WordPress post ID
🌐 siteUrl	Source site base URL
⏱️ scrapedAt	When the row was captured

Sample record:

{
  "imageUrl": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/example.jpg",
  "title": "Example article headline",
  "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/24/example-article/",
  "excerpt": "A short summary of the article in plain text.",
  "author": "Jane Doe",
  "categories": ["Startups"],
  "tags": ["funding", "venture"],
  "publishedAt": "2026-08-24T14:00:00",
  "modifiedAt": "2026-08-24T15:12:00",
  "postId": 2894412,
  "siteUrl": "https://techcrunch.com",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-24T16:00:00.000Z"
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

🌟	Benefit
⚡	Fast API-based extraction, no browser overhead
🌍	Works on any WordPress site with the REST API enabled
🧹	Clean plain-text fields, HTML stripped for you
📦	Multi-site runs in one job
🖼️	Featured images included via embedded media

📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Setup	Clean fields	Multi-site	Images
This Actor	None	Yes	Yes	Yes
Manual API calls	High	No	No	Extra work
HTML scraping	High	Fragile	Rebuild per site	Fragile

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Add one or more WordPress site URLs (for example https://techcrunch.com).
3. Set Max Items if you want a preview or a capped run.
4. Click Start and download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

💼 Business use cases

Competitive content monitoring

Export a competitor's article archive and analyze topics, cadence, and category mix to shape your own editorial calendar.

SEO and topic research

Pull categories, tags, and titles at scale to map keyword coverage and spot content gaps across a niche.

Content migration and archiving

Snapshot a site's full posting history before a redesign, platform move, or shutdown.

Media and trend analysis

Aggregate articles from multiple publications to track how a story or topic spreads over time.

🔌 Automating WordPress Articles Scraper

Connect this Actor to Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, or your own backend through the Apify API and webhooks. Schedule recurring runs to keep a live mirror of a site's latest articles, or trigger a run whenever your workflow needs fresh content data.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Build article corpora for computational journalism, media studies, or linguistics.

Creative

Feed a curated stream of articles into newsletters, digests, or generative projects.

Non-profit

Archive reporting from at-risk or independent publications before it disappears.

Experimentation

Prototype recommendation, summarization, or classification models on real article data.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this Actor's page into your favorite AI assistant and ask how to wire it into your stack, what fields to expect, or how to structure a multi-site run. It is built to be self-explanatory.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

📌 Which sites work?

Any WordPress site that leaves the REST API enabled, which is the default. Most WordPress sites qualify.

📌 Do I need an API key for the site?

No. It reads only the public, already-published REST endpoint.

📌 What if a site has the API disabled?

The Actor returns a clear diagnostic row for that site and continues with the others.

📌 Can I scrape several sites at once?

Yes. Add as many site URLs as you like in a single run.

📌 Are images included?

Yes, the featured image URL for each article is captured when the site provides one.

📌 Is the text clean?

Yes. Titles and excerpts are returned as plain text with HTML stripped.

📌 How far back does it go?

As far as the site publishes. It paginates the entire post archive unless you cap it with Max Items.

📌 What formats can I export?

CSV, Excel, JSON, and XML.

📌 Does it capture full article body text?

It returns the excerpt the site publishes. Full body extraction is out of scope for this Actor.

📌 How current is the data?

It reflects the site live at run time. Schedule runs to keep it fresh.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Use the Apify API, webhooks, and native integrations to send results to Make, Zapier, Slack, Google Sheets, Airtable, databases, or any HTTP endpoint.

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Disclaimer: This Actor collects only publicly available data published openly through the WordPress REST API. Use it in compliance with each site's terms and applicable laws. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by WordPress or any site it scrapes.