HTML to Markdown API —
Clean Text for AI Pipelines
Convert any webpage to clean markdown. Navigation, ads, and boilerplate are stripped automatically. The output is optimized for LLM context windows, RAG indexing, and fine-tuning datasets.
Web content, ready
for your AI stack.
Strips nav, ads & boilerplate
Readability algorithms identify the main content. Headers, footers, sidebars, cookie banners, and ad blocks are removed before conversion.
LLM-ready output
Clean markdown with proper heading hierarchy. No HTML tags, no script blocks, no wasted tokens on repeated navigation elements.
RAG-optimized
Structured output that chunks well for retrieval. Heading hierarchy preserved for metadata extraction and semantic search indexing.
URL in, markdown out.
No html2text library. No Beautiful Soup. No cleanup scripts. Just clean markdown from any URL.
curl -X POST https://api.snaprender.dev/v1/render \
-H #A8D4A0">"x-api-key: sr_live_YOUR_KEY" \
-H #A8D4A0">"Content-Type: application/json" \
-d #A8D4A0">'{"url": "https://example.com/blog/post", "format": "markdown"}'
# Response:
# {
# "data": {
# "markdown": "# Blog Post Title\n\nThe main content of the article,
# stripped of navigation, ads, and boilerplate..."
# }
# }Built for the AI era.
RAG pipelines
Ingest web content into your retrieval-augmented generation system. Clean markdown chunks better than raw HTML and preserves semantic structure for embedding.
Fine-tuning datasets
Build training datasets from web content. The stripped, normalized markdown format means consistent quality across thousands of pages without manual cleanup.
Content migration
Moving content between CMS platforms? Convert existing web pages to markdown, then import into your new system. Heading hierarchy and formatting preserved.
Documentation ingestion
Index external documentation for your AI assistant. Convert docs.* and help.* sites to clean markdown that fits your LLM context window efficiently.
$0.006 per conversion.
Same flat price as every other SnapRender endpoint. No credit multipliers. 100 free requests/month to build and test your pipeline.
Questions & answers
SnapRender uses readability algorithms to identify the main content area, then strips navigation, sidebars, footers, ads, cookie banners, and other non-content elements before converting to clean markdown.
Yes. The output is optimized for token efficiency — clean text with proper heading hierarchy, no HTML tags, no script/style blocks, and no repeated navigation elements that waste context tokens.
Absolutely. The markdown output is designed for RAG workflows: clean text chunks, proper heading structure for metadata extraction, and no boilerplate noise that degrades retrieval quality.
Yes. SnapRender renders the page in a real Chromium browser first, then extracts and converts the rendered DOM to markdown. SPAs, dynamic content, and client-side rendered pages all work.
Add use_flaresolverr: true to your request. SnapRender handles Cloudflare anti-bot challenges before extracting content, so you get clean markdown even from protected sites.