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Readable plain text with the markup stripped out. It resolves to a string:

const text = await microlink.text('https://example.com')

Leading, trailing, and repeated whitespace is collapsed, which keeps the output compact for indexing, search, or token-budgeted prompts. PDFs with a text layer and office documents are converted too.

Options

It takes the same scoping options as markdown:

selector <string> — returns the text of the first element matching the CSS selector.
selectorAll <string> | <string[]> — returns the text of every matching element, as an array.
type <string> — overrides how the extracted value is normalized, per the rules grammar.

Any shared option applies too.

Examples

Skip navigation and footers by scoping to the article:

const text = await microlink.text('https://example.com/blog/post', {
  selector: 'article'
})

Every headline on a news front page:

const headlines = await microlink.text('https://news.ycombinator.com', {
  selectorAll: '.titleline > a'
})

Prefer markdown when structure matters — headings, lists, and links survive there — and text when only the words do.

See URL to Text in the content conversion guide.