Web Form Extractor — every form's fields, method & action from a URL

Extract all forms on a web page with their action, method, enctype, and every field (name, type, required, placeholder, value) — plus quick flags for hasPassword, hasEmail, and hasFile. Built for security review, QA/automation mapping, and lead-form auditing. Single URL or bulk.

$0.001 per page. Failed fetches are recorded free.

What you get

• One record per page, listing every <form>.
• Per form: action, method, enctype, id, name, fieldCount, and a fields array.
• Per field: name, type, required, placeholder, value.
• Convenience flags: hasPassword, hasEmail, hasFile.
• Fail-soft: an unreachable URL returns {ok:false, error} and is never charged.

Input

{ "url": "https://github.com/login", "urls": ["https://example.com/contact"], "maxUrls": 25 }

Output (real run, 2026-08-07)

{
  "ok": true,
  "url": "https://github.com/login",
  "status": 200,
  "formCount": 1,
  "forms": [
    {
      "action": "https://github.com/session",
      "method": "post",
      "enctype": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
      "fieldCount": 16,
      "hasPassword": true,
      "hasEmail": false,
      "hasFile": false,
      "fields": [
        { "name": "login", "type": "text", "required": true, "placeholder": "", "value": "" },
        { "name": "password", "type": "password", "required": true }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Pricing — $0.001 per page

Priced at roughly 5× our measured compute cost per page. No directly comparable generic HTML-form extractor was found on the Apify Store on 2026-08-07 (the closest listings are specialized SEC-filing scrapers and full web agents), so there is no competitor price to quote.

Limits (honest ones)

• Reads the server HTML; forms injected by JavaScript after load are not seen (no headless browser).
• Field action is absolutized to the page URL when relative.
• maxUrls capped per run.

FAQ

• Does it submit forms? No — it only reads and describes them.
• Does it run JavaScript? No — server HTML only.
• Can it flag login/upload forms? Yes — hasPassword, hasEmail, and hasFile make those easy to filter.
• What about a dead URL? You get an {ok:false, error} record, uncharged.

Use from code or AI agents

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/EliAI~webpage-forms-extractor/runs?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"url":"https://github.com/login"}'

Callable as an agent tool through the Apify MCP server (mcp.apify.com).

For AI agents

This Actor is built to be called by software, not just by people.

• Mount it directly as an MCP tool — no Store search, no ranking, just this one tool: https://mcp.apify.com/?actors=eliai/webpage-forms-extractor
• Or call it over HTTP and get the results in the same request: POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/eliai~webpage-forms-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items
• Pay with x402, without an Apify account. This Actor is whitelisted for agentic payments, so an agent holding USDC on Base can buy a prepaid token and spend it here. The minimum purchase is $1, the token balance is an absolute spending cap, and it expires 14 days after purchase.
• Costs are predictable before you call. Pricing is pay-per-event (see Pricing above), so an agent can budget a run in advance instead of discovering the bill afterwards.
• Send only the field you mean. If you pass the bulk field, it is used on its own; the single-value field is a fallback, never merged into your request. You are charged for the items you sent and nothing else.