# Website Content Crawler — Text, Titles & Metadata (`hipersoft/website-content-crawler`) Actor Extract clean, readable content from any list of websites: page title, meta description, headings, main body text, word count and link/image counts. Optional same-domain crawl. Bulk-ready, no browser, no login. Great for LLM/RAG ingestion, content audits and research. - **URL**: https://apify.com/hipersoft/website-content-crawler.md - **Developed by:** [hiper soft](https://apify.com/hipersoft) (community) - **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing from $0.0024 / page scraped 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 a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases. 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 — Text, Titles & Metadata Turn any list of websites into clean, structured content. For each page the Actor extracts the **title, meta description, headings, main body text (boilerplate stripped), word count, language and link/image counts** — over plain HTTP, no browser and no login. Optionally **crawl internal links** to pull a whole section. Ideal for **LLM/RAG ingestion, content audits, competitive research, and building text datasets** from many sites at once. ### What you get per page | Field | Notes | |---|---| | `title`, `description`, `lang` | Page title, meta/OG description, ``. | | `text` | Readable body text with scripts/nav/header/footer stripped; prefers `
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`. | | `wordCount` | Word count over the full extracted text. | | `headings` | `h1`/`h2` outline (level + text). | | `internalLinkCount`, `externalLinkCount`, `imageCount` | Structure signals. | | `links` | Arrays of internal/external links (toggle off to slim the output). | | `canonicalUrl`, `domain`, `depth` | Canonical link, host, and crawl depth. | ### Input ```json { "urls": ["https://apify.com/blog", "example.com"], "crawl": true, "maxPagesPerDomain": 20, "maxDepth": 2 } ```` - **urls** — pages/sites to extract, one per line. (Or use **startUrls**.) - **crawl** — follow same-domain links (BFS). Off = just the given URLs. - **maxPagesPerDomain** / **maxDepth** — crawl limits. - **sameDomainOnly** — keep the crawl on the start domain (default on). - **includeLinks** — include the internal/external link arrays (counts always included). - **textMaxChars** — truncate stored body text (word count uses the full text). - **maxConcurrency** / **maxItems** — parallelism and a global page cap. - **proxyConfiguration** — optional; enable if a target blocks datacenter IPs. ### Output (one row per page) ```json { "input": "https://apify.com/blog", "url": "https://apify.com/blog", "domain": "apify.com", "depth": 0, "title": "Apify Blog", "description": "News and tutorials…", "lang": "en", "headings": [{ "level": 1, "text": "Apify Blog" }], "text": "…clean readable content…", "wordCount": 812, "internalLinkCount": 47, "externalLinkCount": 6, "imageCount": 12, "error": null } ``` ### Notes Every site is hard-capped in time so one slow page can never stall a bulk run. Only publicly available page content is collected; respect each site's terms. # Actor input Schema ## `urls` (type: `array`): Websites/pages to extract content from (e.g. "apify.com", "https://example.com/blog"). One per line. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Alternative to "URLs": a request list of {"url": "..."} objects. ## `crawl` (type: `boolean`): When on, follow same-domain links from each start URL (breadth-first) up to the page/depth limits below. When off, only the given URLs are fetched (one row each). ## `maxPagesPerDomain` (type: `integer`): When crawling, the maximum pages to fetch per start URL. ## `maxDepth` (type: `integer`): When crawling, how many link-hops deep to go from the start URL. ## `sameDomainOnly` (type: `boolean`): Only follow links on the start URL's domain while crawling. ## `includeLinks` (type: `boolean`): Include the arrays of internal/external links in each record (counts are always included). ## `textMaxChars` (type: `integer`): Truncate extracted body text to this many characters (word count is computed on the full text). ## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`): How many sites to process in parallel. ## `maxItems` (type: `integer`): Cap total pages across all sites (0 = no cap). ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Optional. Enable a proxy if a target blocks datacenter IPs. ## Actor input object example ```json { "urls": [ "https://apify.com" ], "crawl": false, "maxPagesPerDomain": 1, "maxDepth": 1, "sameDomainOnly": true, "includeLinks": true, "textMaxChars": 40000, "maxConcurrency": 10, "maxItems": 0, "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": false } } ``` # 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://apify.com" ] }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("hipersoft/website-content-crawler").call(input); // Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any) console.log('Results from dataset'); console.log(`💾 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); }); // 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → 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://apify.com"] } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("hipersoft/website-content-crawler").call(run_input=run_input) # Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any) print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"]) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) # 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start ``` ## CLI example ```bash echo '{ "urls": [ "https://apify.com" ] }' | apify call hipersoft/website-content-crawler --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "mcp-remote", "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=hipersoft/website-content-crawler", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer " ] } } } ``` ## OpenAPI specification ```json { "openapi": "3.0.1", "info": { "title": "Website Content Crawler — Text, Titles & Metadata", "description": "Extract clean, readable content from any list of websites: page title, meta description, headings, main body text, word count and link/image counts. Optional same-domain crawl. Bulk-ready, no browser, no login. Great for LLM/RAG ingestion, content audits and research.", "version": "1.0", "x-build-id": "ioh4YIwdMySzSoWGd" }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2" } ], "paths": { "/acts/hipersoft~website-content-crawler/run-sync-get-dataset-items": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-hipersoft-website-content-crawler", "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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema" } } } }, "parameters": [ { "name": "token", "in": "query", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "Enter your Apify token here" } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "OK" } } } }, "/acts/hipersoft~website-content-crawler/runs": { "post": { "operationId": "runs-sync-hipersoft-website-content-crawler", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": { "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema" } } } } } } }, "/acts/hipersoft~website-content-crawler/run-sync": { "post": { "operationId": "run-sync-hipersoft-website-content-crawler", "x-openai-isConsequential": false, "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.", "tags": [ "Run Actor" ], "requestBody": { "required": true, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "$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": "URLs", "type": "array", "description": "Websites/pages to extract content from (e.g. \"apify.com\", \"https://example.com/blog\"). One per line.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "startUrls": { "title": "Start URLs (advanced)", "type": "array", "description": "Alternative to \"URLs\": a request list of {\"url\": \"...\"} objects.", "items": { "type": "object", "required": [ "url" ], "properties": { "url": { "type": "string", "title": "URL of a web page", "format": "uri" } } } }, "crawl": { "title": "Crawl internal links", "type": "boolean", "description": "When on, follow same-domain links from each start URL (breadth-first) up to the page/depth limits below. When off, only the given URLs are fetched (one row each).", "default": false }, "maxPagesPerDomain": { "title": "Max pages per domain", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "When crawling, the maximum pages to fetch per start URL.", "default": 1 }, "maxDepth": { "title": "Max crawl depth", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 5, "type": "integer", "description": "When crawling, how many link-hops deep to go from the start URL.", "default": 1 }, "sameDomainOnly": { "title": "Stay on the same domain", "type": "boolean", "description": "Only follow links on the start URL's domain while crawling.", "default": true }, "includeLinks": { "title": "Include link lists", "type": "boolean", "description": "Include the arrays of internal/external links in each record (counts are always included).", "default": true }, "textMaxChars": { "title": "Max text characters", "minimum": 500, "type": "integer", "description": "Truncate extracted body text to this many characters (word count is computed on the full text).", "default": 40000 }, "maxConcurrency": { "title": "Concurrency", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 50, "type": "integer", "description": "How many sites to process in parallel.", "default": 10 }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max pages (total)", "minimum": 0, "type": "integer", "description": "Cap total pages across all sites (0 = no cap).", "default": 0 }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "Proxy configuration", "type": "object", "description": "Optional. Enable a proxy if a target blocks datacenter IPs.", "default": { "useApifyProxy": false } } } }, "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 } } } } } } } } } } ```