Markdown API
Website to Markdown use cases
Recipes for converting web pages, documents and videos into clean Markdown for LLMs and RAG pipelines: boilerplate-free articles, metadata frontmatter, JavaScript-rendered apps, PDFs and office files, YouTube transcripts and crawl-scale conversion. One problem per page, with the code to run and what the conversion does not cover.
Use cases
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Markdown with metadata frontmatter
Get each page as Markdown with a YAML frontmatter block: title, author, date, word count and reading time.
Clean Markdown, no boilerplate
Convert only the article body: one selector keeps navigation, ads and widgets out of the Markdown.
LLM context from any URL
Compose Markdown, links, emails, metadata and tech stack from one URL into a context object for your agent.
PDF and office documents to Markdown
Convert PDF, DOCX, XLSX and PPTX URLs to readable Markdown with the same request you use for web pages.
YouTube transcripts as Markdown
Get the caption transcript of any watch, share or shorts URL as Markdown, with the video title, author and date.
Markdown from JavaScript-rendered pages
Render single-page apps in a real browser, wait for the content, then convert the finished DOM to Markdown.
Markdown from bot-protected pages
Convert pages behind Cloudflare, DataDome or Akamai: with any API key the built-in proxy resolves automatically.
Bulk Markdown conversion with caching
Convert thousands of URLs in parallel, cached per URL and refreshed in the background for cheap re-indexing.
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Docs and resources
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Other use cases
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Mobile screenshots at any viewport
Emulate an iPhone, a Pixel, an iPad or any custom viewport and capture the page exactly as those visitors see it.
Screenshots without cookie banners or ads
Ads, trackers and consent popups are blocked before the page renders, and one option dismisses first-party banners.
PDF invoices from authenticated pages
Print the invoice page your app already renders: forward the session, hide the chrome, name the file.
Clean PDFs without ads or banners
Get a document, not a browser tab: ads and consent popups blocked by default, sticky chrome removed with one CSS rule.
Custom fields alongside metadata
Get prices, ratings, headings or any CSS selector, typed and returned next to the normalized metadata.
Fix missing or wrong og:image
Override any normalized field with a rule and chain fallbacks so link previews never render empty.
Any website to JSON
Declare the fields you want as CSS selector rules and get typed JSON back, with null for anything the page does not have.
Product prices and stock
Read prices as numbers and stock as text from any product page, with fallback rules that survive template changes.
Scrape Cloudflare-protected websites
Get the real page instead of “Just a moment”: with any API key, blocked requests escalate through proxy tiers up to residential IPs.
Fix 403 and 429 scraping errors
Tell an antibot 403, a throttling 429 and your own quota apart, then route, cache or wait accordingly.
Brand and media monitoring from Google News
Query Google News by brand, country and time window and get headline, publisher and ISO 8601 date for every article.
Price comparison from Google Shopping
Get every merchant Google Shopping lists for a product, with a numeric price, the merchant name and the rating, per country.