Website Content Crawler
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Website Content Crawler
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Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, and integrates well with 🦜🔗 LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the wider LLM ecosystem.
Do you want to learn more about this Actor?
Get a demoYou can access the Website Content Crawler programmatically from your own JavaScript applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11 "startUrls": [
12 {
13 "url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners"
14 }
15 ],
16 "useSitemaps": true,
17 "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
18 "includeUrlGlobs": [],
19 "excludeUrlGlobs": [],
20 "initialCookies": [],
21 "proxyConfiguration": {
22 "useApifyProxy": true
23 },
24 "keepElementsCssSelector": "",
25 "removeElementsCssSelector": `nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='data:'],
26 [role="alert"],
27 [role="banner"],
28 [role="dialog"],
29 [role="alertdialog"],
30 [role="region"][aria-label*="skip" i],
31 [aria-modal="true"]`,
32 "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]"
33};
34
35// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
36const run = await client.actor("apify/website-content-crawler").call(input);
37
38// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
39console.log('Results from dataset');
40console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
41const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
42items.forEach((item) => {
43 console.dir(item);
44});
45
46// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsWebsite Content Crawler API in JavaScript
The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Website Content Crawler API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
npm install apify-clientOther API clients include:
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3.9k monthly users
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711 stars
>99% runs succeeded
2.2 days response time
Created in Mar 2023
Modified 3 hours ago
