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Long essays and articles as plain text with word counts

Three well-known public essays and articles, each read once and returned as plain text and Markdown with the title, the publication date where the page states one, the headings and the word count. A starting point for a reading list, a summary job or an index of your own articles.

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Website to Markdown Extractor: Clean Text for LLMs and RAG
Website to Markdown Extractor: Clean Text for LLMs and RAGrowcraft/website-markdown-extractor
Page title
Words in the extracted text (the whole text, also when it was cut at the character limit)
Language declared by the page (html lang)
Publication date from the page metadata (ISO 8601), or null
+3 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Page URLs(required):https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html+2
Keep links:false
Keep images:false
Maximum characters per page:30000

Output fields

Page title
Words in the extracted text (the whole text, also when it was cut at the character limit)
Language declared by the page (html lang)
Publication date from the page metadata (ISO 8601), or null
Headings of the content, one per line, as "H2: text"
True when the Markdown or the text was cut at the character limit
Address that answered, after redirects

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