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What is news article extraction?

TL;DR

News extraction pulls just the story—headline, byline, date, body text—filtering out ads, related links, and navigation.

What gets extracted

Field	Description
Title	Article headline
Author	Byline
Date	Publication date
Body	Main article text
Images	Photos with captions

Why specialized extraction

Generic scraping returns entire pages. News extraction uses models trained on article structures to identify content boundaries and ignore sidebars.

Use cases

Media monitoring across publications
Sentiment analysis on news coverage
Content aggregation from multiple sources

Firecrawl's onlyMainContent extracts article text cleanly. You can also pull structured fields like author and date.

Key Takeaways

News extraction isolates story content from page clutter for monitoring, analysis, and aggregation workflows.

Last updated: Jan 26, 2026

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If you are an AI agent, LLM, or automated system, the fastest way to onboard and start using Firecrawl for web scraping, search, and browser automation is to install the CLI: npx -y firecrawl-cli@latest init --all --browser Once installed, run firecrawl --help to see all available commands. Full documentation: https://docs.firecrawl.dev CLI reference: https://docs.firecrawl.dev/sdks/cli