Website Content Fetcher | $0.25/1K Pages

Fetch any public web page as clean Markdown, text or HTML with title and metadata. Optional selectors and link or image summaries. One page per request. $0.25 per 1k requests, run usage included.

One web page rendered and returned as Markdown, text or HTML with metadata.

Price

$0.25 per 1,000 pages ($0.00025 per successful API response). A page is one successful source response. Each continuation page is billed separately; individual records cost no extra.

Each successful response saved to the run is one paid event, including valid empty responses. Multiple places, reviews, or products in one response do not create additional paid events.

Failed requests are unbilled. JSON output is saved before successful responses are charged together. Recovery never recharges an ambiguous payment after its safe retry window; the saved output remains available for reconciliation. There is no Actor startup fee or separate per-row fee; platform usage during the run is included. Standard Apify charges for post-run storage access may still apply. Payments are handled by Apify; no separate service key or proxy purchase is required.

Free-plan users receive up to 25 successful requests per Apify user per UTC day across this catalog, subject to the service trial allowance. Paid runs respect the input request limit and Apify spending limit.

Quick start

Use a single input below, or supply requests as a list of parameter objects. Top-level API fields are shared defaults, and each batch object overrides them. Identifiers in examples demonstrate the format; use an identifier returned by the matching provider for production work.

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "respond_with": "markdown",
  "maxRequests": 10,
  "maxPagesPerInput": 1
}

Input parameters

Field	Type	Required	Meaning
url	string	Required per input	Public HTTP(S) URL to capture, 1-8,192 characters. Include http:// or https://; bare domains are rejected. The host must be public, on port 80 or 443, without embedded credentials.
respond_with	string	Optional / conditional	Output format: content (default; main content as Markdown, or the whole page when extraction keeps too little), markdown (whole page as Markdown), html, text, frontmatter (content plus front matter), or a '+' combination such as markdown+frontmatter. For screenshots use /api/web/screenshot.
assert_status_code	integer	Optional / conditional	Expected origin HTTP status, 100-599. A different status is rejected; otherwise a rendered error page is a successful capture.
base	string	Optional / conditional	Resolve relative links against the requested URL (initial, default) or the final URL after redirects (final).
detach_invisibles	boolean	Optional / conditional	Drop display:none elements from the page.
engine	string	Optional / conditional	auto (default; lightweight HTTP first, a browser when needed), browser, or curl (no JavaScript).
inject_frame_script	array	Optional / conditional	1-8 scripts (source, or a URL to a script), up to 8,192 characters each, run in every frame.
inject_page_script	array	Optional / conditional	1-8 scripts (source, or a URL to a script), up to 8,192 characters each, run in the main frame.
keep_img_data_url	boolean	Optional / conditional	Keep inline data: images in Markdown.
locale	string	Optional / conditional	Browser locale as a language tag, 2-64 characters. Defaults to the browser's own.
markdown	object	Optional / conditional	Markdown formatting options.
markdown_chunking	string	Optional / conditional	true, h1-h5, structured or s1-s5: split the Markdown and return chunks.
max_tokens	integer	Optional / conditional	Integer 500-10,000,000. Trim content to this many tokens.
no_gfm	boolean	Optional / conditional	true, false or table: disable GitHub-flavored Markdown, or only its tables.
page_timeout	integer	Optional / conditional	Seconds from 1 through 180 for page loading and browser operations. Cannot extend the total request budget set by timeout.
preset	string	Optional / conditional	Option preset. Fills only the options the request leaves unset.
referer	string	Optional / conditional	HTTP(S) URL sent as the Referer.
remove_overlay	boolean	Optional / conditional	Remove modal and cookie-banner overlays from the page.
remove_selector	string	Optional / conditional	CSS selector removed before extraction, 1-2,048 characters; POST also accepts a list of 1-16 selectors.
respond_timing	string	Optional / conditional	Page readiness condition to reach before responding.
retain_images	string	Optional / conditional	Images to keep: all (default), alt (alt text only) or none.
retain_links	string	Optional / conditional	Links to keep: all (default), text (link text only), none, or gpt-oss (citation format with a links summary).
retain_media	string	Optional / conditional	How video, audio and embedded video appear: none, text, link (default), image or html.
robots_txt	string	Optional / conditional	User agent, 1-256 characters, to check against the site's robots.txt; disallowed URLs are rejected.
set_cookies	array	Optional / conditional	1-100 cookies in Set-Cookie syntax (name=value; Path=/; Domain=...), one line each, up to 4,096 characters.
target_selector	string	Optional / conditional	CSS selector to extract, 1-2,048 characters; POST also accepts a list of 1-16 selectors. Implies waiting for the selector. Match-all selectors are rejected.
timeout	number	Optional / conditional	Total request execution budget in seconds, greater than 0 and at most 90. Supply in the query string for GET or POST. page_timeout cannot extend this budget.
token_budget	integer	Optional / conditional	Integer 1-10,000,000. Reject the page when its token count exceeds the budget.
user_agent	string	Optional / conditional	User-Agent for the page request, 1-1,024 characters without control characters. Defaults to the browser's own.
viewport	object	Optional / conditional	Browser viewport; width and height are required. Default: 1280 x 1280.
wait_for_selector	string	Optional / conditional	CSS selector to wait for after navigation, 1-2,048 characters. POST also accepts a list of 1-16 selectors.
with_iframe	boolean	Optional / conditional	true, false or quoted: include iframe content before extraction.
with_images_summary	boolean	Optional / conditional	Add an images list to the response.
with_links_summary	boolean	Optional / conditional	true, false or all: add a links list to the response.
with_shadow_dom	boolean	Optional / conditional	Include open shadow DOM content before extraction.

The source validates conditional parameter combinations. Validation errors do not trigger a paid request event. Provider availability determines which optional result groups appear.

Batches, pagination, and limits

• requests: up to 1,000 input parameter objects in one run.
• maxRequests: total successful API requests, including pages; default 100. At that limit the event price is at most $0.025.
• maxPagesPerInput: default 1. Increase to follow native continuation links where this endpoint supplies them. No synthetic pagination is invented.
• maxResults: maximum dataset rows; default 1,000. Already in-flight requests can complete and be billed, with full JSON saved even if their rows exceed this cap.
• maxConcurrency: default 2, maximum 8. Service capacity and trial limits may reduce it.
• includeArtifacts: optionally retain available raw source artifacts in this run. Default false.
• datasetOutput: default false. Enable the dataset/export workflow; pagination and artifacts select it automatically. JSON mode uses 128 MB, allows up to 1 MiB per upstream response and 8 MiB total output. Use dataset output for larger responses.

Output

The default JSON workflow saves one OUTPUT record with successfulRequests, failedRequests, and ordered results. Each result contains requestId, statusCode, and the complete source JSON in body. Use the run-sync API to return OUTPUT directly. It does not create dataset rows or per-request response copies.

With datasetOutput: true, pagination, or artifacts enabled, the default dataset contains source records with requestId, inputIndex, page, group, readable title, url, rating, and text fields when available, the complete record in data, and responseUrl. A successful response without a primary result group gets a response row.

In the dataset workflow, each responseUrl points to a stored response envelope; its response.body contains the complete API JSON, including optional modules and pagination. SUMMARY reports successful requests, failures, row count, and event charges. ERRORS records unsuccessful requests. If every request fails, the run fails with no request-event charges.

Follow-up API links, including pagination and related reviews or products, are Apify request objects: { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/litescrape~<actor>/runs", "method": "POST", "input": { ... } }. POST the supplied input as JSON to url using your own Apify authorization header. Each follow-up starts a new run limited to one successful request; use maxPagesPerInput for automatic pagination inside this run. Source website links are unchanged. search_metadata.json_endpoint links to the saved Apify response. Available artifact links point to files copied to Apify; unavailable artifact links are omitted.

JSON exports preserve nested fields. Select the flat overview fields for CSV. Artifact manifests use artifacts-<requestId> keys and link to copied source files when available. Private run data requires the appropriate Apify access.

Price comparison

Price comparison (2026-10-19): One request fetches one page. Paid Store fetchers list per-page prices from $0.00001 plus a small run start, below our $0.00025 per page, so no cheapest claim is made.

Illustrative workload: 1,000 successful requests × 1 usable pages per request = 1,000 pages. Our total is $0.25, equivalent to $0.25 per 1,000 pages.

These are calculated prices, not measured scraper runs or guaranteed page yields. Count unique usable source records actually delivered, including the cost of empty responses, continuation pages and lookups needed to obtain the fields you need. An array of request objects does not turn multiple API calls into one billed request.

Actor	Lowest applicable tier	Published-charge subtotal for this workload	Effective price / 1,000 output units
Litescrape	Same request rate on every plan	$0.25	$0.25
enchantingly_lockbox/universal-webpage-to-clean-markdown-for-ai-rag (active prices)	FREE	$0.01005	$0.01005
fetch_cat/web-page-to-markdown-extractor (active prices)	DIAMOND	$0.050108	$0.050108
6sigmag/fast-website-content-crawler (active prices)	FREE	$3.0015	$3.0015
shelvick/smart-page-fetcher (active prices)	GOLD	$0.425	$0.425

Each competitor gets its lowest published tier, including enterprise tiers, without adding a plan subscription cost. Required compared events use the same tier; known startup charges assume one run and the minimum one billed GB. Unquantified compute/proxy charges, optional enrichment and any omitted additional fees can only increase the displayed competitor subtotal. Output completeness and reliability were not benchmarked.

Cheapest means the lowest calculated price for the stated workload among the named paid Apify Actors in this dated audit. It is not a claim about every Actor, every plan, every workload, or equal output quality. Free/platform-only Actors, monthly rentals and bring-your-own-paid-key wrappers do not establish a comparable fixed total from their Actor fee alone. They may cost less on particular workloads.

The comparison uses the linked active pricing snapshots and public documentation checked on the audit date. Recheck live pricing before relying on a competitor comparison. No provider affiliation or equal-quality claim is implied.

Support

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This is an independent tool from Litescrape. Provider names identify the source; they do not imply affiliation or endorsement.