Extract Text from URL

Extract clean, readable content from any webpage in seconds.

preserve-lines
Keep line breaks in output

Extracting Content…

Fetching and parsing the webpage. This may take a few seconds.

Extraction Successful
Strategy: —  |  Length: — chars  |  Mode:
Page Title

—

Excerpt
—
Extracted Content
0 chars
—
Response Fields
Success
true
Source URL
—
Strategy
—
Title
—
Byline
Not available
Content Length
— characters
Mode Used
—
Excerpt Detail

—

Raw API Response 

          

        

      


    

  

  

  
  

    


      

        

          
What does this API do?

          

            

              The Extract Text from URL API lets you pull clean, readable content
              from any webpage with a single POST request.
            

            

              It returns structured data including the page title, main content, a short excerpt,
              byline, and character count.  all in clean JSON, ready to use in any application or workflow.
            

            

              API link:
              
                rapidapi.com/vedacms/api/extract-text-from-url-api
              
            

          

        

      


      

        

          
How to use this tool?

          

            
Using this demo is quick and simple:

            
    
              
  1. Enter the webpage URL you want to extract from
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  2. Get your RapidAPI key by subscribing to the API
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  3. Paste your key into the RapidAPI Key field
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  4. Toggle Preserve Lines on or off depending on whether you want line breaks preserved
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  5. Click Extract and view your result.
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You can start with the free tier - no payment method required.

          

        

      


      

        

          
Use Cases

          

            

              

                

                  

                    
                  

                  

                    
AI & LLM Pipelines

                    

                      Feed webpage content into language models for summarization, question answering, or retrieval workflows.
                    

                  

                

                

                  

                    
                  

                  

                    
Content Aggregation

                    

                      Collect readable text from  webpages for newsletters, digests, or internal tracking tools.
                    

                  

                

                

                  

                    
                  

                  

                    
SEO & Content Auditing

                    

                      Review word count, readability, and page structure for SEO tools and audits.
                    

                  

                

              

              

                

                  

                    
                  

                  

                    
Research & Analysis

                    

                      Extract page content for keyword review, topic analysis, archiving, or manual review.
                    

                  

                

                

                  

                    
                  

                  

                    
Chatbots & Assistants

                    

                      Allow a chatbot to process a user-shared URL and respond using the extracted page content.
                    

                  

                

                

                  

                    
                  

                  

                    
Workflow Automation

                    

                      Pipe extracted text into Zapier, Make, n8n, or custom backend workflows seamlessly.
                    

                  

                

              

            

          

        

      


      

        

          
API Reference

          

            

              

                
Endpoint

                

                  POST/v1/extract-content
                

                
Base URL

                

                  https://extract-text-from-url-api.p.rapidapi.com
                

                
Request Body

                

                  
                    
FieldTypeRequiredDescription

                  
                  
                    

                      urlstring
                      yes
                      Public webpage URL to extract
                    

                    

                      modestring
                      no
                      preserve-lines keeps line breaks
                    

                  
                

              

              

               

                
Response Fields

                

                  
                    
FieldTypeDescription

                  
                  
                    
successbooleanExtraction status

                    
urlstringSource URL processed

                    
strategystringExtraction strategy used

                    
titlestringPage title

                    
contentstringMain readable content

                    
excerptstringShort content preview

                    
bylinestringAuthor or source name

                    
lengthnumberContent length (chars)