# Website Content Crawler Pro β€” Markdown for AI & RAG (`hipersoft/web-content-crawler-pro`) Actor Crawl any website into clean Markdown or text for LLMs, RAG and AI. HTTP + JS-browser modes, main-content (readability) extraction, sitemaps, URL glob filters, cookie-banner removal and CSS selectors. No login, no API key. - **URL**: https://apify.com/hipersoft/web-content-crawler-pro.md - **Developed by:** [hiper soft](https://apify.com/hipersoft) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools, AI - **Stats:** 3 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.003 / page crawled This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events. Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event ## What's an Apify Actor? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours, and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store. In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server. Actors are written with capital "A". ## How to integrate an Actor? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. The best way to integrate Actors is as follows. In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): ```bash npm install apify-client ``` In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): ```bash pip install apify-client ``` In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): ````bash # MacOS / Linux curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash # Windows irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex ```bash In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md). If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md). For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below. For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Website Content Crawler Pro β€” Clean Markdown for AI, RAG & LLMs Turn any website into clean, LLM-ready **Markdown** (or text) in one run. Built for feeding documentation, blogs and knowledge bases into **RAG pipelines, vector databases and AI agents**. Crawls with a fast HTTP engine *or* a full JavaScript browser, extracts just the main content (no nav, ads or cookie banners), and follows internal links with precise glob and sitemap control. No account, no API key. ### Features - πŸ“ **Markdown output** β€” clean, structured Markdown per page, ideal for LLMs, RAG and vector DBs (plus plain text and optional HTML) - 🌐 **HTTP or Browser mode** β€” fast HTTP crawling for static sites, or full Chromium rendering for JavaScript/SPA sites - 🧹 **Main-content extraction** β€” Readability strips navigation, ads, footers and cookie banners, keeping the real article - πŸ—ΊοΈ **Sitemap + glob crawling** β€” seed from `sitemap.xml`, and include/exclude URLs with glob patterns - πŸ”— **Smart link following** β€” configurable depth, same-domain-only, and total page cap - 🎯 **CSS control** β€” keep-only or remove specific elements; wait for selectors and dynamic content in browser mode - ⚑ **Fast & parallel** β€” tunable concurrency, retries and proxy support ### What you get One record per page: ```json { "url": "https://docs.example.com/guide", "title": "Getting Started", "description": "A short guide to …", "author": null, "siteName": "Example Docs", "lang": "en", "wordCount": 812, "markdown": "# Getting Started\n\nThis guide walks you through …", "text": "Getting Started This guide walks you through …" } ```` ### Input ```json { "urls": ["https://docs.apify.com/academy"], "crawlerType": "http", "crawl": true, "maxCrawlPages": 200, "includeUrlGlobs": ["https://docs.apify.com/academy/**"], "saveMarkdown": true } ``` | Field | Description | |-------|-------------| | `urls` | Start URLs to crawl. | | `crawlerType` | `http` (fast) or `browser` (JS rendering). | | `crawl` | Follow internal links from the start URLs. | | `maxCrawlPages` / `maxCrawlDepth` | Total page cap and link-hop depth. | | `includeUrlGlobs` / `excludeUrlGlobs` | Glob filters for which URLs to crawl. | | `useSitemaps` | Seed from each site's `sitemap.xml`. | | `saveMarkdown` / `saveText` / `saveHtml` | Output formats. | | `htmlTransformer` | `readability` (main content) or `none` (full body). | ### Use cases - **RAG & AI knowledge bases** β€” turn docs sites into Markdown for retrieval-augmented generation - **LLM fine-tuning datasets** β€” collect clean article text at scale - **Docs & blog migration** β€” export a site's content to Markdown - **Competitive/content research** β€” pull structured page content across a domain ### Pricing Pay-per-event: a small amount per page crawled. See the **Pricing** tab for current rates. ### FAQ **What's the difference from a basic content scraper?** This Pro version outputs clean **Markdown** (not just text), renders **JavaScript** sites with a real browser, extracts the **main content** with Readability, and supports **sitemaps + glob filters** β€” everything a RAG/LLM pipeline needs. **Do I need an API key?** No. Just give it URLs and run β€” no account or key required. **Can it handle JavaScript / single-page apps?** Yes. Set `crawlerType` to `browser` and, if needed, `waitForSelector` or `dynamicContentWaitSecs` so client-rendered content loads before extraction. **What output format is best for AI/RAG?** Markdown. It preserves headings, lists and links in a compact form that LLMs and chunkers handle well. Plain text and HTML are also available. **How many pages can it crawl?** Up to tens of thousands per run via `maxCrawlPages`, with sitemap seeding and glob filters to target exactly the pages you want. ### Related Actors - [Website Content Crawler](https://apify.com/hipersoft/website-content-crawler) β€” the lightweight text-only crawler - [Website Contact Scraper](https://apify.com/hipersoft/website-contact-scraper) β€” emails, phones and socials from any site - [RAG Web Browser](https://apify.com/hipersoft/rag-web-browser) β€” search the web and return page content for AI agents - [Bulk URL Checker](https://apify.com/hipersoft/bulk-url-checker) β€” status, redirects and metadata for a list of URLs ### Notes Original clean-room implementation using open-source libraries (Crawlee, Mozilla Readability, Turndown). Respects the target site's content; use responsibly and within each site's terms. This is an independent tool, not affiliated with any site it crawls. # Actor input Schema ## `urls` (type: `array`): URLs to crawl. One per line. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Advanced: start URLs as request objects. ## `crawlerType` (type: `string`): http = fast, no JavaScript. browser = full Chromium for JS/SPA sites. ## `crawl` (type: `boolean`): Crawl internal links from the start URLs (otherwise only the given URLs). ## `maxCrawlPages` (type: `integer`): Maximum pages to crawl in total. ## `maxCrawlDepth` (type: `integer`): How many link-hops from a start URL to follow. ## `sameDomainOnly` (type: `boolean`): Only follow links on the same domain as the start URL. ## `includeUrlGlobs` (type: `array`): Only crawl URLs matching these glob patterns, e.g. https://site.com/docs/\*\*. ## `excludeUrlGlobs` (type: `array`): Skip URLs matching these glob patterns. ## `useSitemaps` (type: `boolean`): Seed the crawl from each site's sitemap.xml. ## `saveMarkdown` (type: `boolean`): Output clean Markdown (ideal for LLMs/RAG). ## `saveText` (type: `boolean`): Output plain text. ## `saveHtml` (type: `boolean`): Include the cleaned content HTML. ## `saveLinks` (type: `boolean`): Include the list of links found on each page. ## `htmlTransformer` (type: `string`): readability = extract the main article (strip nav/ads). none = keep the whole page body. ## `removeElementsCssSelector` (type: `string`): CSS selector of elements to strip before extraction (e.g. nav, footer, .ads). ## `keepElementsCssSelector` (type: `string`): If set, keep only content inside this CSS selector. ## `removeCookieWarnings` (type: `boolean`): Strip common cookie/consent banners. ## `dynamicContentWaitSecs` (type: `integer`): Browser mode: wait this many seconds for JS content to load. ## `waitForSelector` (type: `string`): Browser mode: wait until this CSS selector appears. ## `textMaxChars` (type: `integer`): Truncate each page's text/markdown to this many characters (0 = no limit). ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): Max pages crawled in parallel. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxy configuration. ## Actor input object example ```json { "urls": [ "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners" ], "crawlerType": "http", "crawl": false, "maxCrawlPages": 50, "maxCrawlDepth": 3, "sameDomainOnly": true, "useSitemaps": false, "saveMarkdown": true, "saveText": true, "saveHtml": false, "saveLinks": false, "htmlTransformer": "readability", "removeCookieWarnings": true, "dynamicContentWaitSecs": 0, "textMaxChars": 0, "maxConcurrency": 10, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # API You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup. ## JavaScript example ```javascript import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; // Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token // Replace the '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "urls": [ "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("hipersoft/web-content-crawler-pro").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`πŸ’Ύ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); items.forEach((item) => { console.dir(item); }); // πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs ``` ## Python example ```python from apify_client import ApifyClient # Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token # Replace '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "urls": ["https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("hipersoft/web-content-crawler-pro").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("πŸ’Ύ Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # πŸ“š Want to learn more πŸ“–? Go to β†’ https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "urls": [ "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners" ] }' | apify call hipersoft/web-content-crawler-pro --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=hipersoft/web-content-crawler-pro", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Website Content Crawler Pro β€” Markdown for AI & RAG", "description": "Crawl any website into clean Markdown or text for LLMs, RAG and AI. HTTP + JS-browser modes, main-content (readability) extraction, sitemaps, URL glob filters, cookie-banner removal and CSS selectors. No login, no API key.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "zfGsc1hvgaiav0FrF" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/hipersoft~web-content-crawler-pro/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-hipersoft-web-content-crawler-pro", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/hipersoft~web-content-crawler-pro/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-hipersoft-web-content-crawler-pro", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK", "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/hipersoft~web-content-crawler-pro/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-hipersoft-web-content-crawler-pro", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } } }, "components": { "schemas": { "inputSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "urls": { "title": "Start URLs", "type": "array", "description": "URLs to crawl. One per line.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs (request objects)", "type": "array", "description": "Advanced: start URLs as request objects.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "crawlerType": { "title": "Crawler type", "enum": [ "http", "browser" ], "type": "string", "description": "http = fast, no JavaScript. browser = full Chromium for JS/SPA sites.", "default": "http" }, "crawl": { "title": "Follow links", "type": "boolean", "description": "Crawl internal links from the start URLs (otherwise only the given URLs).", "default": false }, "maxCrawlPages": { "title": "Max pages", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum pages to crawl in total.", "default": 50 }, "maxCrawlDepth": { "title": "Max depth", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "How many link-hops from a start URL to follow.", "default": 3 }, "sameDomainOnly": { "title": "Same domain only", "type": "boolean", "description": "Only follow links on the same domain as the start URL.", "default": true }, "includeUrlGlobs": { "title": "Include URL globs", "type": "array", "description": "Only crawl URLs matching these glob patterns, e.g. https://site.com/docs/**.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "excludeUrlGlobs": { "title": "Exclude URL globs", "type": "array", "description": "Skip URLs matching these glob patterns.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "useSitemaps": { "title": "Use sitemaps", "type": "boolean", "description": "Seed the crawl from each site's sitemap.xml.", "default": false }, "saveMarkdown": { "title": "Save Markdown", "type": "boolean", "description": "Output clean Markdown (ideal for LLMs/RAG).", "default": true }, "saveText": { "title": "Save plain text", "type": "boolean", "description": "Output plain text.", "default": true }, "saveHtml": { "title": "Save HTML", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include the cleaned content HTML.", "default": false }, "saveLinks": { "title": "Save links", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include the list of links found on each page.", "default": false }, "htmlTransformer": { "title": "Content extraction", "enum": [ "readability", "none" ], "type": "string", "description": "readability = extract the main article (strip nav/ads). none = keep the whole page body.", "default": "readability" }, "removeElementsCssSelector": { "title": "Remove elements (CSS)", "type": "string", "description": "CSS selector of elements to strip before extraction (e.g. nav, footer, .ads)." }, "keepElementsCssSelector": { "title": "Keep only (CSS)", "type": "string", "description": "If set, keep only content inside this CSS selector." }, "removeCookieWarnings": { "title": "Remove cookie banners", "type": "boolean", "description": "Strip common cookie/consent banners.", "default": true }, "dynamicContentWaitSecs": { "title": "Dynamic content wait (s)", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 30, "type": "integer", "description": "Browser mode: wait this many seconds for JS content to load.", "default": 0 }, "waitForSelector": { "title": "Wait for selector", "type": "string", "description": "Browser mode: wait until this CSS selector appears." }, "textMaxChars": { "title": "Max chars per page", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Truncate each page's text/markdown to this many characters (0 = no limit).", "default": 0 }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "Max pages crawled in parallel.", "default": 10 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy", "type": "object", "description": "Proxy configuration.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": true } } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } } ```