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.

Pricing

Pay per usage

Rating

4.5

(134)

Developer

Apify

Maintained by Apify

Actor stats

2.1K

Bookmarked

90K

Total users

4.7K

Monthly active users

3.8 days

Issues response

21 hours ago

Last modified

Categories

Developer tools

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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners" }],
10    "useSitemaps": False,
11    "useLlmsTxt": False,
12    "respectRobotsTxtFile": True,
13    "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
14    "includeUrlGlobs": [],
15    "excludeUrlGlobs": [],
16    "initialCookies": [],
17    "customHttpHeaders": {},
18    "signHttpRequests": False,
19    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
20    "keepElementsCssSelector": "",
21    "removeElementsCssSelector": """nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='data:'],
22[role=\"alert\"],
23[role=\"banner\"],
24[role=\"dialog\"],
25[role=\"alertdialog\"],
26[role=\"region\"][aria-label*=\"skip\" i],
27[aria-modal=\"true\"]""",
28    "blockMedia": True,
29    "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]",
30    "storeSkippedUrls": False,
31}
32
33# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
34run = client.actor("apify/website-content-crawler").call(run_input=run_input)
35
36# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
37print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
38for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
39    print(item)
40
41# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Website Content Crawler API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Website Content Crawler API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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