Website Content Crawler
Pricing
Pay per usage
Website Content Crawler
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.
4.6 (38)
Pricing
Pay per usage
1224
Monthly users
6.4k
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
4.6 days
Last modified
a day ago
You can access the Website Content Crawler programmatically from your own 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": false,
17 "respectRobotsTxtFile": true,
18 "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
19 "includeUrlGlobs": [],
20 "excludeUrlGlobs": [],
21 "initialCookies": [],
22 "proxyConfiguration": {
23 "useApifyProxy": true
24 },
25 "keepElementsCssSelector": "",
26 "removeElementsCssSelector": `nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='data:'],
27 [role="alert"],
28 [role="banner"],
29 [role="dialog"],
30 [role="alertdialog"],
31 [role="region"][aria-label*="skip" i],
32 [aria-modal="true"]`,
33 "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]"
34};
35
36// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
37const run = await client.actor("apify/website-content-crawler").call(input);
38
39// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
40console.log('Results from dataset');
41console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
42const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
43items.forEach((item) => {
44 console.dir(item);
45});
46
47// 📚 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:
Pricing
Pricing model
Pay per usageThis Actor is paid per platform usage. The Actor is free to use, and you only pay for the Apify platform usage.
