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How to Convert HTML to Clean Markdown in JavaScript

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How to Convert HTML to Clean Markdown in JavaScript

Learn how to convert HTML to clean Markdown in JavaScript using the unified/rehype pipeline. Covers why naive converters fail and shows a working Node.js solution.

Mar 16, 2026

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How to Convert Any Website to an RSS Feed

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How to Convert Any Website to an RSS Feed

Need updates from a site you do not control? Create a WebCrawlerAPI feed for any URL, then read changes as JSON Feed or Atom (RSS-style) from simple endpoints.

Feb 6, 2026

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BeautifulSoup4 Web Crawler

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BeautifulSoup4 Web Crawler

A tiny BeautifulSoup4 + requests crawler that stays on one site, normalizes URLs, and deduplicates links.

Feb 3, 2026

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How to crawl the website with Python

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How to crawl the website with Python

There are several options for how to crawl the content of the website using Python. All methods have their pros and cons. Let's take a look at more detail.

Jan 31, 2026•10 min read

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Extracting article or blogpost content with Mozilla Readability

Extract clean article content from any web page using Mozilla's Readability library—the same algorithm that powers Firefox Reader View. Complete JavaScript code examples with HTML cleaning and error handling.

Sep 10, 2025

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How to crawl website with PHP

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How to crawl website with PHP

Learn how to effectively crawl websites using PHP with frameworks like Goutte and Spatie/Crawler, or opt for the simplicity of WebCrawlerAPI.

Jan 12, 2025•15 min read

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How to Crawl Website with .NET and C#

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How to Crawl Website with .NET and C#

Learn how to effectively crawl websites with .NET and C#, exploring frameworks and APIs for both simple and complex tasks.

Jan 11, 2025•15 min read

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How to upload website content to ChatGPT

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How to upload website content to ChatGPT

Learn how to upload website content to ChatGPT to generate human-like text based on the scraped content of your website.

Jun 23, 2024•15 min read

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How to extract XPath in Golang

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How to extract XPath in Golang

XPath is a powerful tool for selecting nodes in an XML document. In this article, we will show you how to extract XPath in Golang.

Jun 16, 2024•6 min read

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Clean crawled or scraped data with BeatuifulSoup in Python

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Clean crawled or scraped data with BeatuifulSoup in Python

After crawling or scraping the webpage, the data may need to be cleaned. In this article, we provide a solution and code for using BeautifulSoup to remove unneeded content.

May 27, 2024•10 min read

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How to build a web crawler with Scrapy in Python

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How to build a web crawler with Scrapy in Python

Scrapy is a powerful tool for crawling and scraping websites. In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a crawler using this framework, render JavaScript, and save the content of the website page by page.

May 25, 2024•7 min read

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