formats=markdown

Turn any URL into clean Markdown

Send a URL and get the content back as Markdown. Headings, lists, tables, links and code come through; scripts, styles and tag soup do not. Ready for a prompt, a vector store or an agent.

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Failed requests are free

One request, clean Markdown

Add unwrap=true and the Markdown is the whole response body, with Content-Type: text/markdown.

Works on HTML pages and PDFs
Follows redirects to the final page
Add links or metadata in the same request

curl -G https://api.grabber.sh/fetch \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRABBER_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "url=https://example.com/blog/rag-guide" \
  -d "formats=markdown" \
  -d "unwrap=true"

Response body

# A practical guide to RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation answers questions from your own documents.

## 1. Split pages into chunks

- Keep each heading with its text
- Aim for 300 to 800 tokens per chunk

| Chunk size | Recall |
| --- | --- |
| 300 tokens | 0.81 |

[Next: choosing embeddings](https://example.com/blog/embeddings)

How it works

1
Send the URL
Call GET /fetch with url and formats=markdown. Add unwrap=true to get the Markdown as the body.
2
Grabber loads the page
It follows redirects, reads the HTML or the PDF, and converts the content to Markdown.
3
Use the Markdown
Put it in a prompt, split it into chunks for a vector store, or save it. X-Grabber-Cost says what it cost.

What people build with it

RAG pipelines

Index documentation, help centers and articles as Markdown, so chunks keep their headings and tables.

Agents that browse

Give an agent a tool that reads a page in a few thousand tokens instead of tens of thousands of HTML.

Docs for coding assistants

Feed the current docs of a library to Cursor or Claude, so they code against the version you use.

Content migration

Move pages from an old site into a Markdown-based CMS or a static site generator.

Pricing

Prepaid credit, taken one request at a time. Ask for several formats in one request at the price of one.

Request	Price
A page	$0.001
A page with `js_render=true`	$0.005
Any error	$0
Credit when you sign up	$1, about 1,000 pages

Questions

Something else? The docs cover every parameter and error, and you can reach us from the dashboard.

Why Markdown instead of HTML for an LLM?

Markdown keeps the structure a model needs, such as headings, lists, tables and links, and drops the markup it does not. The same page is usually several times smaller, so it costs fewer tokens and leaves more room in the context window.

Does it work with PDFs?

Yes. Point url at a PDF and you get its text back as Markdown, at the same price as a web page.

Can I get Markdown and links in one request?

Yes. Ask for formats=markdown,links and both come back in the JSON envelope. It is one page load, so it costs $0.001, the same as one format.

What if the page is built with JavaScript?

Add js_render=true. The page runs in a headless browser first, and the Markdown is made from what it shows. A rendered page costs $0.005.

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