Extract the article text from any page

Get the clean article text, title, author, publish date, lead image, word count, reading time and readability score of any news or blog page.

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The same lookup is one API call at 1 credit / request (one credit is $0.0003 to $0.001 depending on volume), with failed requests free.

cURL

curl "https://api.gridlode.com/v1/url/readability?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FWeb_scraping" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRIDLODE_KEY"

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FAQ

What is the readability score?

We use the Flesch reading-ease formula (and its adaptations for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese). Higher scores are easier to read.

Does it remove ads and menus?

Yes. Navigation, ads, cookie banners and footers are stripped, leaving the main text as Markdown.

Can I feed the text to an LLM?

Yes. The Markdown output is compact and ready for RAG pipelines.