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
1.1k
Monthly users
5.9k
Runs succeeded
>99%
Response time
2.3 days
Last modified
5 days 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.
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 "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
12 "includeUrlGlobs": [],
13 "excludeUrlGlobs": [],
14 "initialCookies": [],
15 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
16 "keepElementsCssSelector": "",
17 "removeElementsCssSelector": """nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='data:'],
18[role=\"alert\"],
19[role=\"banner\"],
20[role=\"dialog\"],
21[role=\"alertdialog\"],
22[role=\"region\"][aria-label*=\"skip\" i],
23[aria-modal=\"true\"]""",
24 "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]",
25}
26
27# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
28run = client.actor("apify/website-content-crawler").call(run_input=run_input)
29
30# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
31print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
32for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
33 print(item)
34
35# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startWebsite 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-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.
