PageText API — Web Page to Markdown

Convert any public web page to clean, readable Markdown with a single HTTP request. No API key, no registration, no rate limits. Powered by the Jina Reader API.

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Quick Start

Just make a GET or POST request to the Jina Reader endpoint with your target URL:

curl -s "https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com" \
  -H "Accept: text/markdown"

Language Examples

Python

import requests

url = "https://r.jina.ai/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)"
headers = {"Accept": "text/markdown"}
response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
markdown = response.text
print(markdown[:500])  # First 500 chars

JavaScript / Node.js

const response = await fetch(
  "https://r.jina.ai/" + encodeURIComponent("https://example.com"),
  { headers: { Accept: "text/markdown" } }
);
const markdown = await response.text();
console.log(markdown);

n8n Workflow

Use the HTTP Request node:

Method: GET
URL: https://r.jina.ai/{{ $json.url }}
Headers: { "Accept": "text/markdown" }

Response Format

The API returns clean Markdown. Headings, links, lists, code blocks, and tables are preserved. Images are referenced as Markdown links.

# Title of the Page
> Meta description or excerpt

## Section Heading
Content in clean, readable Markdown...

- List item 1
- List item 2

[Link text](https://example.com)

Use Cases

Use Case	Description
LLM Context Building	Feed web documentation into ChatGPT, Claude, DeepSeek context windows for analysis
Content Research	Extract clean article text from cluttered web pages for analysis or republishing
Automation	Use in n8n, Zapier, Make (Integromat) to fetch web content programmatically
Knowledge Base	Convert web articles to .md files for Obsidian, Notion, Logseq
AI Agents	Enable your AI agents to read web pages by converting them to text first
SEO Analysis	Pull competitor pages into Markdown for content structure comparison

Limitations

Works with public web pages only — login-walled content is not accessible
JavaScript-rendered content may be incomplete (the API fetches server-side HTML)
Very large pages (>500K) may be truncated
Rate limits apply to the underlying Jina Reader API (generous for casual use)

Privacy

PageText itself does not store or log any URLs or content. The conversion happens entirely through the Jina Reader API. For sensitive content, consider self-hosting.

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