Data APIs / URL to markdown
Turn any URL — articles, docs, product pages — or an uploaded PDF, Word, Excel, or image file into clean markdown that drops straight into a prompt or a vector store. JavaScript-rendered pages included.
From 1 credit per call · cache hits free · failed calls refunded · no card for the free tier
Every endpoint accepts format=json, markdown, or both. Use the JSON to filter and store; drop the markdown straight into a prompt.
curl 'https://scrapewhale.dev/api/v1/markdown/url?url=https://example.com/article' -H 'Authorization: Bearer <api-key>'
{
"id": "9djpmHuoC3SGImkcGm7Nl",
"provider": "jina",
"title": "Example Domain",
"markdown": "# Example Domain\n\nThis domain is for use in illustrative examples…",
"contentChars": 210,
"creditsCharged": 1
}2 endpoints in this family. Full parameter reference and a try-it console are in the API docs.
/api/v1/markdown/url1 creditAny public web page as clean, LLM-ready markdown — headings, lists, tables, links, and images preserved; nav, ads, and boilerplate removed. JavaScript-rendered pages included. Plain page reading only: YouTube, X, Facebook, and other structured sources have their own endpoints and are not auto-detected here. Recently read pages are served from cache for free.
/api/v1/markdown/file1 creditUpload a document and get it back as markdown: PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, OpenDocument, Apple Numbers, and images (scanned PDFs and images are OCR'd). multipart/form-data with a file field, 10 MB cap; HTML files are rejected — use the URL endpoint for web pages. The upload is validated before any credit is charged.
Feed clean pages and PDFs to your embedding pipeline without HTML cleanup.
Give an agent readable pages at a fraction of the tokens raw HTML costs.
Diff competitor pages as markdown, not DOM soup.
Check whether any domain publishes llms.txt, llms-full.txt, agents.md, or a UCP manifest, and read their contents — an API for auditing agent-readiness across sites.
Domain rating, backlink and referring-domain counts, organic keywords, traffic, and rank for any domain — one pay-per-call API with JSON and markdown output.
Scrape YouTube without an API key: video transcripts, channel stats and uploads, video details, and search results as JSON and markdown. Pay per call, no quota juggling.
No card required. Run any endpoint from the Playground, then create an API key when you are ready to automate.