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Website Content Crawler

Advanced website crawler extracting clean, structured content in Markdown, JSON, or plain text for AI and LLM applications.

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apify-console
~ apify call website-content-crawler
Loading actor configuration...
Running on Apify cloud...
Run succeeded!
Fetched items: 1,245
Exporting to: CSV Excel

Overview

High-quality website content crawler optimized for AI and LLM use cases. Extracts clean, structured content in Markdown, JSON, or plain text with advanced metadata extraction. Features bulk processing, stealth mode, and seamless integration with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and AI workflows. Ideal for RAG pipelines and vector databases.

Key Features

Clean Markdown extraction
Advanced metadata extraction
Bulk processing support
Stealth crawling mode
LangChain integration

Use Cases

1

AI model training data

2

RAG pipeline content

3

Vector database ingestion

4

LLM knowledge base building

5

Documentation scraping

Input Parameters

Parameter Type Required Description
Start URLs Array Optional The initial URLs to start extracting data for Website Content Crawler.
Max Items Integer Optional Maximum number of items to return.

Sample Output

[
  {
    "url": "https://example.com/data",
    "title": "Sample Extracted Record",
    "extracted_at": "2026-05-20T14:30:00Z"
  }
]

How to Use

  1. 1

    Sign up for free: Create a free ParseFlow account to access professional extraction tools.

  2. 2

    Set your parameters: Paste the target URLs into the Website Content Crawler configuration.

  3. 3

    Download your data: Click Start, wait a few minutes, and download your dataset as Excel or JSON.

API Example

curl -X POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/datascoutapi/website-content-crawler-pro/runs \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN' \
  -d '{"startUrls": [{"url": "https://example.com"}]}'

Limitations

  • Data extraction speed depends on the target website's rate limits.
  • Extremely massive runs may require a premium proxy pool.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the Website Content Crawler legal to use?
Extracting publicly available data is generally completely legal for market research. However, always review the target website's Terms of Service.
Can I export the data to Excel?
Yes, you can export the collected data into Excel (XLSX), CSV, JSON, and XML formats directly from the dashboard.
Do I need to know how to code to use this?
No coding is required. Our intuitive visual interface allows anyone to set up and run the scraper in minutes.

Extracted Data Details

Clean text Markdown content Page metadata Title URL Links Images

Pricing Structure Freemium
Category Web Scraping

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