Website Content Crawler
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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.
Do you want to learn more about this Actor?
Get a demoYou can access the Website Content Crawler programmatically from your own Python 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.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {
9 "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://docs.apify.com/academy/web-scraping-for-beginners" }],
10 "useSitemaps": True,
11 "crawlerType": "playwright:adaptive",
12 "includeUrlGlobs": [],
13 "excludeUrlGlobs": [],
14 "initialCookies": [],
15 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },
16 "removeElementsCssSelector": """nav, footer, script, style, noscript, svg,
17[role=\"alert\"],
18[role=\"banner\"],
19[role=\"dialog\"],
20[role=\"alertdialog\"],
21[role=\"region\"][aria-label*=\"skip\" i],
22[aria-modal=\"true\"]""",
23 "clickElementsCssSelector": "[aria-expanded=\"false\"]",
24}
25
26# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
27run = client.actor("apify/website-content-crawler").call(run_input=run_input)
28
29# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
30print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
31for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
32 print(item)
33
34# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startWebsite Content Crawler API in Python
The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Website Content Crawler API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
pip install apify-clientOther API clients include:
Apify- 3k monthly users
- 465 stars
- 99.9% runs succeeded
- 3.1 days response time
- Created in Mar 2023
- Modified 10 days ago
