A Self-Hosted Web Content Extraction API

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

Getting clean content out of a web page is harder than it looks, especially at scale. Every site is put together differently, so a scraper that works on one page falls apart on the next, and the part you actually care about is buried in menus, ads, cookie banners, and scripts. You can feed the whole page to an LLM and let it pull the content out, or pay for an extraction API, but both get expensive once you are handling than a handful of pages. Many sites also render their content with JavaScript, so a plain HTTP fetch returns almost nothing to begin with.