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Website Content Crawler

Apify web crawler that extracts clean text and Markdown for LLMs

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An Apify Actor designed to perform deep crawls of websites and extract clean content formatted as plain text, Markdown, or HTML. It strips away navigation bars, headers, ads, and cookie banners to output structured data ready for AI models, RAG pipelines, and automated site audits. You can run it via Apify's web console or API and export datasets as JSON, CSV, or XML.

What it's for

  • Scrape entire documentation sites to build RAG knowledge bases or custom GPTs
  • Extract clean website text and metadata for automated SEO audits with LLMs
  • Gather company blog posts to train or fine-tune models on brand voice

Features

  • Adaptive crawling that switches between raw HTTP and headless Firefox via Playwright
  • Automatic DOM cleanup removing headers, footers, navigation, modals, and cookie notices
  • Markdown, plain text, and HTML export formats with metadata preservation
  • Automated document downloading for PDF, DOC, DOCX, XLS, and XLSX files
  • AI summarization option per page powered by OpenRouter
  • Direct API access and integrations with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and vector databases

Pricing

Freemium. Free tier available via Apify; pay-per-usage compute credits for larger crawls

Details

Type
Web app
Category
AI
Topic
Web Scraping
Open source
No
Platforms
Web, API
For
Developers, AI engineers, and SEO specialists who need clean web data for LLM workflows.
Alternative to
Firecrawl, Diffbot
Tags
apify, crawler, scraping, rag, llm, markdown

Why it was saved

  • @digitalsamaritan, 9 January 2025: Quickly extracts website content into downloadable files (such as HTML or JSON datasets) ready to feed into LLMs for analysis like SEO audits.

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