When building retrieval or summarization tools, fetched HTML is full of scripts, menus and ads, wasting input length and adding noise. Jina Reader takes a URL in the form documented on its site and returns clean body text; it is an API for developers, not a reader for ordinary users. There is a free quota; parameters and limits follow the official page. It only handles text extraction: login-gated content is out of reach, and rendered pages need another approach.
What it does
- Extracts body text and strips scripts, ads and navigation
- Offered as an API for your own fetching and retrieval pipeline
- Output drops straight into prompts, cutting wasted input
- Suits fetching a batch of links before processing them together
- Handles static pages without you writing parser rules
Who it is for
- Preparing clean corpus for retrieval from ordinary web pages
- Building a summarizing tool that first needs the body text
- Collecting the content of many links before analysis
- Removing HTML noise when debugging model input
How to get started
- Take a real page and fetch plain text in the documented URL form
- Compare with the page to confirm no paragraph is lost or menu mixed in
- Wrap it in a script with retries and rate control before batch runs
