POST
/
v1
/
markdownify
curl -X POST 'https://api.scrapegraphai.com/v1/markdownify' \
  -H 'SGAI-APIKEY: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "website_url": "https://scrapegraphai.com/"
  }'
{
  "request_id": "<string>",
  "status": "queued",
  "website_url": "<string>",
  "result": "<string>",
  "error": ""
}

Markdownify converts webpage content into clean, well-formatted Markdown. This is useful for content migration, documentation creation, or making web content more readable and portable.

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Features

  • Preserves content structure
  • Handles complex layouts
  • Maintains headings hierarchy
  • Converts tables
  • Preserves links and images
  • Cleans up unnecessary formatting

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Example Response

{
  "request_id": "65401e0d-8cd6-4d6a-88f6-e21255d1c06a",
  "status": "completed",
  "website_url": "https://scrapegraphai.com/",
  "result": "## Transform Websites into\nStructured Data\n\n### Just One Prompt Away\n\nTransform any website into clean, organized data for AI agents and Data Analytics.\nEnhance your apps with our AI-powered API.\n\n### Save time\n\nNo more writing complex code or dealing with manual extraction.\n\n### Save money\n\nWhy hire expensive developers or pay for costly scraping services? Our API gives you high-quality data extraction at a fraction of the cost.\n\n### AI powered\n\nWe employ state-of-the-art AI technologies to streamline the data extraction process...",
  "error": ""
}

The response includes the complete webpage content converted to Markdown format. The example above shows a truncated version of the response.

Authorizations

​
SGAI-APIKEY
string
header
required

Body

application/json
​
website_url
string
required
Example:

"https://scrapegraphai.com/"

​
headers
object

Optional headers to send with the request, including cookies and user agent

Example:
{
  "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36",
  "Cookie": "cookie1=value1; cookie2=value2"
}

Response

200
application/json
Successful Response
​
request_id
string
required
​
status
enum<string>
required
Available options:
queued,
processing,
completed,
failed
​
website_url
string
required
​
result
string | null
​
error
string
default:

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