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What is Content extraction?

Verified 5 August 2026

A tiered pipeline is the practical approach: a fast structural reader for ordinary HTML, a model-based fallback for pages it cannot parse, and a headless browser for pages that only render under JavaScript. Each tier costs more than the last, so ordering them by cost matters.

Doing extraction in-house avoids a per-page API bill that, at web scale, dominates every other cost in the pipeline.

Common questions

What is Content extraction?

Content extraction converts a fetched page into clean structured text, handling HTML, JavaScript-rendered pages and documents.

How does Content extraction work in practice?

Doing extraction in-house avoids a per-page API bill that, at web scale, dominates every other cost in the pipeline.

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.