Extract Web Content
Pull usable data out of web pages: clean text and Markdown for search and LLMs, metadata for link previews, links, screenshots, images and RSS feeds.
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What you'll be able to do
- Convert pages to plain text or heading-aware Markdown and chunk them for retrieval
- Build link previews from Open Graph metadata with sane fallbacks, and expand short links safely
- Capture screenshots and copy them to your own storage before the signed link expires
- Read RSS feeds as JSON instead of scraping, and generate valid XML sitemaps
- Choose the cheapest API that answers the question, and know what each one leaves out
This course is one of three skill areas on exam APV-210, APIVerve Certified Developer: Web Data: 10 of its 30 questions. See the full path
Syllabus
- Convert web pages to text or MarkdownStart hereConvert web pages to plain text or Markdown with an API, chunk Markdown by heading for RAG, and clean raw HTML you already have, in Node.js and Python.
- Get page metadata, links and link previewsBuild link previews from Open Graph and meta tags, scrape and resolve page links, and expand short URLs safely with APIs in Node.js and Python.
- Take website screenshots and list page imagesCapture website screenshots and thumbnails with an API, save them before the signed download URL expires, and inventory every image a page loads.
- Read RSS feeds and generate sitemapsRead RSS and Atom feeds as JSON instead of scraping, poll them without duplicates, and generate valid XML sitemaps from a URL list with an API.