This Apify actor crawls one or more URLs, extracts HTML content and converts it into readable Markdown. It supports both full-document conversion and heading-based section chunking (h1–h6).

🚀 Features

🕷️ Crawl any public website
🪄 Convert HTML to GitHub-style Markdown
🧩 Automatically chunk content by heading
🧼 Cleans up temporary crawl artifacts
🐞 Logs crawl/parsing issues to Apify logs

📥 Input Example

{
  "urls": ["https://apify.com"],
  "output_format": "json",
  "debug": false
}

Field	Type	Description
`urls`	array	List of URLs to crawl
`output_format`	string	`"json"` or `"df"` (DataFrame-like)
`debug`	boolean	Enables verbose logging

📤 Output Example

Each record includes:

url – Source URL
markdown – Full converted content
chunks – Markdown split into sections by heading

{
  "url": "https://apify.com",
  "markdown": "# Welcome to Apify\n...",
  "chunks": [
    "# Welcome to Apify",
    "## What is Apify?",
    "## Get Started"
  ]
}

▶️ Usage

You can run this actor:

🟣 Apify CLI

$apify call antonio_espresso/html-to-markdown-converter --input '{ "urls": ["https://apify.com"] }'

🐍 Python

import requests

ACTOR_ID = "antonio_espresso/html-to-markdown-converter"
TOKEN = "APIFY_API_TOKEN"  # Replace with your token

response = requests.post(
    f"https://api.apify.com/v2/actor-tasks/{ACTOR_ID}/runs",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {TOKEN}"},
    json={"urls": ["https://apify.com"], "output_format": "json"}
)

print(response.json())

👨‍💻 Author

Made with ❤️ by SEO Antonio Blago

🔗 My Other Apify Actors:

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⚙️ Tech Stack

Python 3.10+
Apify SDK for Python
Advertools for Markdown generation

🧪 Local Dev

pip install -r requirements.txt
python src/markdown_convert.py

Push to Apify:

$apify push

🧼 License

MIT

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