Turn a web page URL into clean Markdown via API
Send a URL and get back the main content of the page as clean Markdown, without navigation, cookie banners or footers. The task also returns plain text, title, description, language, word count, an estimated token count and the links on the page, ready for an LLM prompt, a RAG pipeline or an AI agent.
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Send the URL to Markdown API task's input in a POST to https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rocketyard~web-page-to-markdown/run-sync-get-dataset-items with your Apify API token. The response has one JSON record per page.
The URL to Markdown API task fetches pages over HTTP without a browser. A page that builds its content with JavaScript, or sits behind bot protection, returns a free error item saying why.
The tokenEstimate field of the URL to Markdown API task is a rough count: the Markdown length divided by 4. Use your model's own tokenizer when you need an exact number.