Page Content Extractor

Data Extraction

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Version: 2.1.0

A powerful API that extracts clean, readable text content from any webpage. Our intelligent content detection algorithms identify and extract the main content while removing ads, navigation, footers, and other non-essential elements. Perfect for data analysis, content aggregation, research, and more.

Clean Content Extraction

Robots.txt Compliance

Intelligent Content Detection

Paywall Handling

Advanced Rate Limiting

Metadata Extraction

Custom Selectors

JSON Output Format

API Playground

Test the API endpoints with different parameters and see the responses in real-time.

Extract content from a webpage using a GET request with a URL parameter

GET/api/page-extractor/

Use Case Example

This endpoint is perfect for quickly extracting text from informational websites, blogs, news articles, and research papers. For example, you could use it to automatically extract the main text from news articles to build a content aggregator or monitoring service.

Request Parameters

GET/api/page-extractor/

Required Parameters1

url*

string

The URL of the webpage to extract content from

Optional Parameters

4 available

Show optional parameters

format

string

Response format (html, text, or json)

selector

string

Custom CSS selector to target specific content

include_metadata

boolean

Include metadata about the extracted content

timeout

integer

Request timeout in milliseconds (1000-30000)

Sample Code

curl

curl -X GET "/api/page-extractor/?url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping&format=text&selector=&include_metadata=true&timeout=10000" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Ready-to-use code

This is ready-to-use code you can copy into your project. Just replace YOUR_API_KEY with your actual API key from your developer dashboard.