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Website Content Crawler

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Website Content Crawler

Website Content Crawler

apify/website-content-crawler
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Crawl websites and extract text content to feed AI models, LLM applications, vector databases, or RAG pipelines. The Actor supports rich formatting using Markdown, cleans the HTML, downloads files, and integrates well with 🦜🔗 LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the wider LLM ecosystem.

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You can access the Website Content Crawler programmatically from your own JavaScript applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "startUrls": [
12        {
13            "url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners"
14        }
15    ],
16    "useSitemaps": true,
17    "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
18    "includeUrlGlobs": [],
19    "excludeUrlGlobs": [],
20    "initialCookies": [],
21    "proxyConfiguration": {
22        "useApifyProxy": true
23    },
24    "keepElementsCssSelector": "",
25    "removeElementsCssSelector": `nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg, img[src^='data:'],
26        [role="alert"],
27        [role="banner"],
28        [role="dialog"],
29        [role="alertdialog"],
30        [role="region"][aria-label*="skip" i],
31        [aria-modal="true"]`,
32    "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]"
33};
34
35// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
36const run = await client.actor("apify/website-content-crawler").call(input);
37
38// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
39console.log('Results from dataset');
40console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
41const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
42items.forEach((item) => {
43    console.dir(item);
44});
45
46// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Website Content Crawler API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Website Content Crawler API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

npm install apify-client

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  • 3.8k monthly users
  • 616 stars
  • 99.9% runs succeeded
  • 3.4 days response time
  • Created in Mar 2023
  • Modified 2 days ago