# Website to Markdown (`cool_ya/website-to-markdown`) Actor

Convert any web page into clean, LLM-ready Markdown. Strips nav, ads and boilerplate and returns the main article text plus title, description and word count. Perfect for RAG and AI pipelines.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/cool\_ya/website-to-markdown.md
- **Developed by:** [Y A](https://apify.com/cool_ya) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $3.00 / 1,000 page converteds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Website to Markdown

**Turn any web page into clean, LLM-ready Markdown — no boilerplate, no HTML noise.**

Feed this Actor a list of URLs and get back the **main readable content** of each page as tidy Markdown, with navigation, ads, scripts, and footers stripped out. Built for **RAG pipelines, AI agents, LLM ingestion, content archiving, and research**.

### What it does

- 📝 **Clean Markdown** — headings, lists, tables, blockquotes, and code blocks preserved.
- 🧹 **Boilerplate removal** — drops nav, headers, footers, sidebars, forms, scripts, and ads.
- 🎯 **Smart main-content detection** — finds `<article>`/`<main>`/content containers automatically.
- 🏷️ **Metadata** — page title, meta/OpenGraph description, and word count.
- ⚡ **HTTP-only & fast** — no headless browser, so it's cheap even at scale.

### Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | array | Page URLs to convert. |
| `url` | string | Convenience field for a single page. |
| `minWords` | integer | Skip pages with fewer than N words (0 = keep all). |

#### Example input

```json
{
    "startUrls": ["https://example.com/some-article"],
    "minWords": 100
}
```

### Output

One record per page:

```json
{
    "url": "https://example.com/some-article",
    "title": "An Interesting Article",
    "description": "A short summary from the page meta tags.",
    "markdown": "# An Interesting Article\n\nThe cleaned body text...",
    "wordCount": 842
}
```

Pipe the `markdown` field straight into your vector DB, LLM prompt, or knowledge base.

### Pricing

Billed **per page** successfully converted. Failed/empty pages return an `error` record and are effectively free.

### Notes

- Works best on article/blog/documentation pages. JavaScript-only single-page apps that render content client-side may return limited text (this Actor is HTTP-only by design, for speed and low cost).
- Identifies itself with a clear User-Agent.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

List of web page URLs to fetch and convert to clean Markdown.

## `url` (type: `string`):

Convenience field for a single page. Use 'startUrls' for multiple.

## `minWords` (type: `integer`):

Skip pages whose extracted content has fewer than this many words (helps filter thin/empty pages). 0 = keep everything.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://example.com/article"
  ],
  "minWords": 0
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [
        "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-a-dynamic-page/"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("cool_ya/website-to-markdown").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "startUrls": ["https://blog.apify.com/what-is-a-dynamic-page/"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("cool_ya/website-to-markdown").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    "https://blog.apify.com/what-is-a-dynamic-page/"
  ]
}' |
apify call cool_ya/website-to-markdown --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=cool_ya/website-to-markdown",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/Uob0NJ3vJkmowfcCI/builds/xB0U39dK1jVOcfQAJ/openapi.json