What it does
The Extract Text from Website API turns any URL into plain text. Send a webpage URL and get back the text a visitor can see on the page, with the HTML, scripts and styling stripped out.
There are two endpoints. The main endpoint returns all the text as a single string in data, which suits LLM prompts, summarization and full-text search. The /split endpoint returns an array with one line of text per item, which is easier to filter, diff or scan line by line. Both take a url parameter. Set preserve_paragraphs to true to keep paragraph breaks instead of flattening everything into one block.
Common uses include feeding page content into AI models and RAG pipelines, indexing pages for internal search, checking the copy a user actually sees for SEO audits, and monitoring competitor or partner pages for text changes.
The response includes all visible text on the page, including navigation, footers and cookie banners. If you only need the main article body, use Extract Article Text. If you need clean, structured content ready for an AI model, use the AI-ready Clean Data Extractor.
You can try it right here in the playground. The free plan includes 5 API calls a day with no card required, so you can test it on your own URLs before you commit.
The API is also available through ApyHub MCP, so AI agents can call it directly to read a webpage.