Article Extractor and URL to Markdown API

API ID 14315

Turn any article URL into clean Markdown or plain text for LLMs, RAG and readers. Ads, nav, footers and comments removed. Adds title, author, date, word count and reading time.

100% uptime 478 ms avg response

API Documentation

Endpoints

Request
Fetches the url and returns its main content as Markdown and plain text plus metadata (title, byline, published time, site name, language, image, word count, reading time).
Endpoint ID: 35883
GET https://zylalabs.com/api/14315/article+extractor+and+url+to+markdown+api/35883/extract+article
INPUT PARAMETERS

Extract Article — Endpoint Features

Object Description
url Required Public http(s) URL to extract
format Optional Output format: both, markdown or text (optional)
links Optional Include links: true or false (optional)
images Optional Include images: true or false (optional)
max_chars Optional Maximum characters of content to return (optional integer)

Free test requests remaining: 3 of 3.


INPUT PARAMETERS

url
format
links
images
max_chars
API EXAMPLE RESPONSE
JSON
{
    "url": "https://paulgraham.com/hwh.html",
    "title": "How to Work Hard",
    "byline": null,
    "published_time": null,
    "site_name": null,
    "lang": null,
    "description": null,
    "image": null,
    "excerpt": "June 2021\n\nIt might not seem there's much to learn about how to work hard. Anyone who's been to school knows what it entails, even if they chose not to do it. There are 12 year olds who work amazingly hard. And yet when I ask if I know more about working hard now than when I was…",
    "word_count": 3313,
    "reading_time_min": 14,
    "truncated": true,
    "markdown": "June 2021\n\nIt might not seem there's much to learn about how to work hard. Anyone who's been to school knows what it entails, even if they chose not to do it. There are 12 year olds who work amazingly hard. And yet when I ask if I know more about working hard now than when I was in school, the answer is definitely yes.\n\nOne thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work v",
    "text": "June 2021\n\nIt might not seem there's much to learn about how to work hard. Anyone who's been to school knows what it entails, even if they chose not to do it. There are 12 year olds who work amazingly hard. And yet when I ask if I know more about working hard now than when I was in school, the answer is definitely yes.\n\nOne thing I know is that if you want to do great things, you'll have to work v",
    "status": 200,
    "content_type": "text/html"
}
Extract Article — CODE SNIPPETS

curl --location --request GET 'https://zylalabs.com/api/14315/article+extractor+and+url+to+markdown+api/35883/extract+article?url=https://paulgraham.com/hwh.html&max_chars=400' --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' 


    

API Access Key & Authentication

After signing up, every developer is assigned a personal API access key, a unique combination of letters and digits provided to access to our API endpoint. To authenticate with the Article Extractor and URL to Markdown API simply include your bearer token in the Authorization header.

Headers
Header Description
Authorization Required Should be Bearer access_key. See "Your API Access Key" above when you are subscribed.

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Starts at
$10,000/Year


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Overview

Turn any article URL into clean Markdown or plain text for LLMs, RAG and readers. Ads, nav, footers and comments removed. Adds title, author, date, word count and reading time.

Article Extractor and URL to Markdown API FAQs

The Extract Article endpoint returns the main content of an article as clean Markdown and plain text, along with metadata including the title, author, published time, site name, language, image, word count, and reading time.

Key fields in the response include "url," "title," "byline," "published_time," "site_name," "lang," "description," "image," "word_count," and "reading_time_min," providing comprehensive details about the article.

Users can customize their requests by specifying the article URL in the GET request. The API processes the URL to extract relevant content and metadata, ensuring tailored output based on the provided link.

Typical use cases include converting articles for LLMs, integrating content into RAG systems, creating summaries for readers, and generating clean text for further analysis or presentation without distractions like ads or comments.

It reads the HTML the server sends and does not run JavaScript. That covers server-rendered sites: news, blogs, docs, GitHub, Wikipedia and most pre-rendered Next.js/Nuxt sites. Pages that build content only in the browser can return little or no text; those return 502 "empty_content" instead of an empty 200, so you are not billed.

You get exactly what the site serves publicly. The API does not bypass paywalls, logins or captchas. If the site refuses the request (401/403/429/451) or serves a bot-challenge page, you get 502 "upstream_blocked" with the site's upstream_status. Because it is not a 200, it does not count against your plan.

Your Zyla plan sets the monthly quota and rate limit (see the Pricing tab; the 7-day trial includes 50 calls). Only successful calls count. The response headers x-zyla-api-calls-monthly-remaining and X-Zyla-RateLimit-Reset show what's left and when the limit resets. The backend runs on a global edge network and handles bursts in parallel.

Format=both (the default) returns both markdown and text. format=markdown returns Markdown only (headings, lists, block quotes, code blocks, links resolved to absolute URLs), and format=text returns plain text only. Use links=false to strip link markup and images=true to keep images. Every response includes title, byline, published_time, site_name, lang, description, image, excerpt, word_count and reading_time_min.

Max_chars=N cuts markdown and text to at most N characters each and sets truncated: true. word_count and reading_time_min still describe the full article, so you know how much you skipped. Use it to fit an LLM context budget (for example max_chars=8000 is about 2k tokens). 0 or leaving it out means no limit.

All errors are non-2xx JSON, and only 200 responses are billed. 400: invalid or missing url, a blocked address (localhost or private IPs, including via redirect), or a bad format. 415: the target isn't HTML or text (e.g. a PDF or image). 502 upstream_blocked: the site refused or challenged the request. 502 empty_content: about 0 words were extracted. 502 fetch_failed: the site was unreachable or timed out (10 s). 401: missing or invalid Zyla key. 502 bodies look like {error: upstream_blocked, upstream_status: 403}.

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