# WordPress Content / Blog Scraper (`centspy/wordpress-content-scraper`) Actor

Scrape posts from any WordPress site via the public REST API. No proxy, no browser.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/centspy/wordpress-content-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [brandon nadeau](https://apify.com/centspy) (community)
- **Categories:** Marketing, News
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$1.00 / 1,000 post scrapeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### WordPress Content / Blog Scraper

Extract **posts** from any WordPress site — titles, full content, excerpts, authors, categories, tags, publish dates, and featured images. Great for content research, SEO analysis, building text datasets, archiving, and site migration.

This scraper reads the **public WordPress REST API** (`/wp-json/wp/v2/posts`), which the majority of WordPress sites expose by default. That means:

- **No proxies needed** — keeps your cost low.
- **No browser** — fast and lightweight.
- **No broken selectors** — it reads a stable JSON API, not fragile HTML.

Roughly 40% of the web runs WordPress, so this works on an enormous range of sites.

### What it does

Give it one or more WordPress site URLs and it returns posts as clean, structured rows — optionally filtered by keyword, and optionally converted from HTML to plain text.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `siteUrls` | array | One or more WordPress site URLs. Domain alone is fine. **Required.** |
| `search` | string | Optional keyword filter, applied by the site's API. |
| `maxPostsPerSite` | integer | Cap posts per site. `0` = no limit. Default `0`. |
| `includeContent` | boolean | Include the full post body. Turn off for titles + metadata only (lighter). Default `true`. |
| `stripHtml` | boolean | Convert titles, excerpts, and content from HTML to plain text. Default `false`. |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "siteUrls": ["https://site-a.com/"],
    "search": "machine learning",
    "maxPostsPerSite": 200,
    "stripHtml": true
}
```

### Output

```json
{
    "site": "https://site-a.com/",
    "id": 4821,
    "title": "Getting Started with Machine Learning",
    "slug": "getting-started-with-ml",
    "link": "https://site-a.com/getting-started-with-ml",
    "date": "2026-03-14T09:00:00",
    "modified": "2026-03-20T11:32:00",
    "author": "Jane Doe",
    "categories": ["Tutorials", "AI"],
    "tags": ["machine-learning", "beginners"],
    "excerpt": "A practical intro to ML for developers...",
    "content": "Full post body here...",
    "featuredImage": "https://site-a.com/wp-content/uploads/..."
}
```

Export to **CSV, JSON, Excel, or HTML**, or pull via the Apify API.

### Pricing

This Actor uses **pay-per-event** pricing — a small charge per post scraped, platform usage included. A run scraping 1,000 posts costs roughly the per-post price × 1,000.

### Responsible use

Scraped content is the property of its original authors. Use this Actor for research, analysis, archiving, and migration — not for republishing others' content as your own. You are responsible for complying with each site's terms and applicable copyright law.

### Notes & limitations

- Some sites disable or restrict the public REST API. For those, the Actor logs a warning and moves on.
- Returns published posts (the API only serves public content to anonymous requests).
- Custom post types aren't included by default — this targets standard blog posts.

# Actor input Schema

## `siteUrls` (type: `array`):

One or more WordPress site URLs. The domain is enough for most sites (e.g. example.com). If the site is a WordPress multisite installed in a subdirectory (e.g. example.com/news), include that subdirectory — it's needed to find the right REST API.

## `search` (type: `string`):

Filter posts by keyword (applied by the site's API). Leave blank to fetch all posts.

## `maxPostsPerSite` (type: `integer`):

Cap the number of posts scraped per site. Set 0 for no limit.

## `includeContent` (type: `boolean`):

Include the full post body. Turn off to fetch only titles, excerpts, and metadata (lighter).

## `stripHtml` (type: `boolean`):

Convert titles, excerpts, and content from HTML to plain text.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "siteUrls": [
    "https://site-a.com/",
    "https://site-b.com/"
  ],
  "search": "",
  "maxPostsPerSite": 0,
  "includeContent": true,
  "stripHtml": false
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "siteUrls": [
        "https://wordpress.org/news"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("centspy/wordpress-content-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "siteUrls": ["https://wordpress.org/news"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("centspy/wordpress-content-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "siteUrls": [
    "https://wordpress.org/news"
  ]
}' |
apify call centspy/wordpress-content-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,centspy/wordpress-content-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/N1vdBhqFPfBjMALaG/builds/KP0WcuqrF7EDQ7WdG/openapi.json