URLtoText - Extract clean text from any website

Hey Product Hunt community! I'm thrilled to launch urltotext.com today. Urltotext.com started as an internal debugging tool the web scraper for another product of ours but quickly became indispensable for our customers in extracting clean data from various websites. When working with LLMs, especially for RAG (retrieval augmented generation), clean data input is crucial. Urltotext.com excels at: 1. Extracting clean text from raw HTML, reducing token bloat 2. Intelligently isolating main content using AI-driven heuristics 3. Rendering JavaScript and using residential IPs to overcome common extraction hurdles We're exploring a paid version with higher rate limits, a fully documented API for programmatic access, and advanced features like CAPTCHA solving. If urltotext.com sounds useful for your projects, I'd love to hear your thoughts! Please share your feedback and use cases in the comments.

This sounds really promising, @timothybramlett! I'm curious about the AI-driven heuristics you mentioned. Can you elaborate on how they isolate main content? Also, do you have any plans to integrate this tool with popular LLMs for easier use?

Congrats on the launch! This tool is actually really useful! Are you planning to add extraction for multiple pages as well?

Really interested in this and would make very heavy use of an API. @timothybramlett when do you think a paid API will be available? Any chance for a beta access? Could also help a little in development as this is also something I need and would put hours into in my own platform haha. Would rather use yours as it seems a bit further along.

Hey @timothybramlett really nice your service has huge potential 👌🏻 I was using Jina AI lately but in comparison I love the simplicity of your service. As feedback I would add a validation message when a url without schema is entered. Congrats on the launch 🚀

Hey Timothy, I'm curious about how it handles dynamic content. Does it wait for JavaScript to load before extracting the text? How does it perform with websites that have complex layouts or a lot of nested content? It would be interesting to see a comparison of your results versus other text extraction methods. Congrats on the launch!

Congratulations on the launch @timothybramlett. As we can see you are a solo maker, which makes URLtoText even more impressive. Very practical tool!

This feature is very useful, can it also extract content from pages where copying is disabled?

Hello my guys

Hell yeah!! This is dope