Free Website to Text converter
Paste a public page and get its readable text: the article, not the menus, without the markup. Copy it or download a .txt file. Free, no sign-up.
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HOW IT WORKS
From a page to plain text.
Paste a public URL
Any page anyone can open without signing in: an article, documentation, a product page, a PDF. Five a day, no account.
Octocrawl keeps the content
It reads the site’s robots.txt first, then the page, and keeps its main content, leaving out menus, headers and footers. Options can keep the whole page.
Take the text
Headings, links and emphasis lose their marks, tables become tab-separated lines. Copy it, download a
.txt, or switch to the Markdown.
WHO IT IS FOR
Just the words.
For when the markup is in the way: the page’s text, in reading order.
Reading and quoting
Take an article’s text without ads, menus or pop-ups, to read, quote or translate.
Word counts and analysis
Feed a page’s text to a word counter, a readability check or your own script.
Prompts and notes
Paste a page’s text into a chat or a note. For structure a model can use, URL to Markdown keeps the headings and tables.
WHEN A PAGE CAN’T BE READ
An empty file is not an answer.
Many text extractors return a blank file and say nothing. Octocrawl says what happened.
robots.txt disallows it
It stops before fetching and says the site’s rules don’t allow it. If robots.txt can’t be reached at all, it stops too, and says that instead.
The site blocks the request
A verification page, a CAPTCHA or a block page is reported as blocked, never turned into a result about being blocked.
The page needs a login
It says so. These tools don’t sign in; Octocrawl on your own computer can read pages you’re signed in to, in your own Chrome.
It is drawn by JavaScript
These tools don’t run scripts, so the result can be incomplete or empty, and it says so. With a free account, the hosted API reads such pages in a browser.
FROM YOUR CODE OR AGENT
The same text, from your own tools.
Every answer carries its Evidence Record: where the page came from, when, and hashes of what was read.
REST API
Hosted, no key for 20 pages a day; a free account’s key for 1,000 credits a month.
curl https://api.octocrawl.dev/v1/scrape -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{"url":"https://example.com","formats":["markdown"]}'API referenceMCP
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and OpenCode read pages through Octocrawl’s tools.
claude mcp add --transport http octocrawl https://mcp.octocrawl.dev/mcpConnect MCPCLI
On your own computer, with no daily limit, plus crawl and batch.
npx octocrawl scrape https://example.com --markdownAdvanced referencePlayground
Signed in, run any page on your credits, read in a browser when it needs one.
octocrawl.dev/dashboard/scrape/Open the Playground
FAQ
Questions,
answered plainly.
Is it free? Do I need an account?
Yes, and no. You get five pages a day without signing up (at most 150 a day for the whole site), reset at 00:00 UTC. A free account gets 1,000 credits a month for the hosted API, MCP and the Playground, and Octocrawl on your own computer has no limit.
What is the difference from URL to Markdown?
The same read, shown two ways. Markdown keeps headings, lists, tables and links as marks a model or an editor understands; text drops the marks and keeps the words. The Markdown is one click away here too.
What happens to tables, links and images?
A table becomes one line per row with its cells separated by tabs. A link keeps its text and loses its address; an image is left out. List items keep a dash.
Does it work on pages that need JavaScript?
It reads the page as the server sends it and does not run scripts, so a page that draws its content in the browser can come back incomplete or empty, and the result says so. With a free account, the hosted API reads such pages in a browser.
Can it extract text from a PDF?
Yes, from a PDF’s text layer, for files up to 5 MiB at a public URL. A scanned PDF without text comes back empty with the reason: it does no OCR.
Do you keep the pages I convert?
No. Your results live in this page and are gone when you leave it. Each run logs its state and the host of the page, never its path, as the privacy page says.