URL Content Summary — extract article summaries

Extract Article Summary API

What it does

URL Content Summary fetches a web page, extracts its readable content, and returns an LSA-based extractive summary. Send a url and, optionally, sentences to control how many summary sentences you want back.

The response includes the original url, the page title, the generated summary, and basic length metrics: input_length, summary_length, and summary_sentences. That makes it useful when you need a compact representation of an article, blog post, or news page without building your own crawler and summariser.

Use it to preview long-form content, power reading lists, generate internal digests, or compare how much text was reduced after extraction. Because the summary is extractive, it stays close to the source wording and is better suited to factual pages where preserving phrasing matters.

If you already have article URLs in your workflow, URL Content Summary gives you a structured way to turn them into concise, machine-readable summaries.

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8080/dosvak/summarize-url-content" \ -H "apy-token: $APY_TOKEN" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"url":"https://bbc.com/news/article-123","sentences":5}'

What you'll get back

Returns a JSON object with url, title, summary, input_length, summary_length, and summary_sentences fields.

{
  "url": "https://bbc.com/news/article-123",
  "title": "BBC News Article",
  "summary": "First sentence. Second sentence. Third sentence. Fourth sentence. Fifth sentence.",
  "input_length": 1840,
  "summary_length": 312,
  "summary_sentences": 5
}

About this endpoint

What it does

Fetches content from the provided URL and returns an LSA extractive summary of that content. The request body includes the source url and can optionally set how many summary sentences to return.

Request Body

Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
url	String	Yes	The URL to fetch and summarize.
sentences	Integer	No	Number of sentences in the extractive summary. Default: `5`; minimum: `1`; maximum: `20`.

Response

Returns a JSON object with url, title, summary, input_length, summary_length, and summary_sentences fields. The response includes the fetched URL and title, the generated summary text, and integer length metrics for the input and summary.

Parameter	Type	Mandatory	Description
url	String	No	The URL that was summarized.
title	String	No	The title associated with the fetched content.
summary	String	No	The extractive summary text.
input_length	Integer	No	Length of the input content.
summary_length	Integer	No	Length of the summary.
summary_sentences	Integer	No	Number of sentences included in the summary.

Body

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Extract Article Summary API

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