# 🕷️ Website Crawler — Full-Site Scraping for AI (`nexgendata/website-content-crawler`) Actor

Crawl entire websites for clean text, markdown or HTML. Perfect for RAG pipelines, AI training & content analysis. Handles JS-rendered pages. Alternative to Firecrawl & Jina. Pay per page.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/website-content-crawler.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
- **Categories:** AI, SEO tools
- **Stats:** 27 total users, 4 monthly users, 94.4% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 page crawleds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## Website Crawler

Full-Site Scraping for AI

> Public web content, for research and RAG.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON output (7 fields):

- `url` — Url
- `title` — Title
- `text` — Text
- `markdown` — Markdown
- `html` — Html
- `metadata` — Metadata
- `crawledAt` — Crawled At

**Pricing:** $0.020 per page (Pay-Per-Event) — about **50 pages per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it.

**Sample agent prompt:**

```
Run Website Crawler on my input and return the structured results.
```

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related tools — Web crawling for AI/RAG

[RAG Web Browser](https://apify.com/nexgendata/rag-web-browser)

***

*A NexGenData utility actor.*

# Actor input Schema

## `start_urls` (type: `array,string`):

URLs to start crawling from. Accepts a list of URLs OR a single URL string OR a comma/newline-separated list. Also accepts these alternative field names: urls, startUrls, crawlUrls, pages, url.

## `max_pages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of pages to crawl per start URL

## `max_depth` (type: `integer`):

Maximum crawl depth (0 = start URL only, 1 = start URL + linked pages, etc.)

## `same_domain` (type: `boolean`):

Only crawl pages on the same domain as the start URL

## `exclude_patterns` (type: `array`):

URL patterns to exclude from crawling (e.g., /admin, /login)

## `output_format` (type: `string`):

Format for extracted content

## `urls` (type: `array,string`):

Alternative name for `start_urls`. Accepts a list of URLs OR a single URL string OR comma/newline-separated.

## `startUrls` (type: `array,string`):

Alternative name for `start_urls`. Accepts a list of URLs OR a single URL string OR comma/newline-separated.

## `crawlUrls` (type: `array,string`):

Alternative name for `start_urls`. Accepts a list of URLs OR a single URL string OR comma/newline-separated.

## `pages` (type: `array,string`):

Alternative name for `start_urls`. Accepts a list of URLs OR a single URL string OR comma/newline-separated.

## `url` (type: `string`):

Alternative — a single URL when you only need one. Comma-separated values are auto-split.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "max_pages": 10,
  "max_depth": 2,
  "same_domain": true,
  "exclude_patterns": [
    "/admin",
    "/login",
    "/wp-login"
  ],
  "output_format": "json"
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "exclude_patterns": [
        "/admin",
        "/login",
        "/wp-login"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/website-content-crawler").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "exclude_patterns": [
        "/admin",
        "/login",
        "/wp-login",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/website-content-crawler").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "exclude_patterns": [
    "/admin",
    "/login",
    "/wp-login"
  ]
}' |
apify call nexgendata/website-content-crawler --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/website-content-crawler",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/mz8p4p7FT3emhdAhe/builds/MFEcXWqgm92tuHaZF/openapi.json