What is Boilerplate removal?
Verified 5 August 2026
A typical web page is mostly not content. Feeding raw HTML to a model wastes most of the tokens on navigation and legal notices, and dilutes retrieval quality with text that appears identically on every page of the site.
Extraction identifies the main content block structurally. Doing it at index time rather than at query time means the cost is paid once per page rather than once per retrieval.
Common questions
What is Boilerplate removal?
Boilerplate removal strips navigation, headers, footers, cookie banners and adverts from a page to leave the actual content.
How does Boilerplate removal work in practice?
Extraction identifies the main content block structurally. Doing it at index time rather than at query time means the cost is paid once per page rather than once per retrieval.
See it working
The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card — enough to test any of this against your own queries.