ExtractText

📝 Description

Extract precise portions of text from web pages! ExtractText uses CSS selectors to target specific elements - headings, paragraphs, lists, or specific divs.

Ideal for structured scraping of data such as product prices, article lists, contact details, or news headlines. Surgical precision saves an enormous amount of time when extracting data from complex web pages.

🚀 Why This Tool Stands Out

• 🎯Precise Selectors - extract exactly what you need
• 🔧CSS Selector Support - just like in web development
• 📋Structured Data as an array or object
• 🧹No HTML Clutter - pure content only

📊 JSON Parameters

• url REQUIRED (String)The URL of the web page to extract from. Example: "https://example.com/products"
• selector REQUIRED (String)The CSS selector for the elements to extract. Example: "h1", ".price", "article h2", "#content p"
• attribute OPTIONAL (String)Extracts a specific attribute instead of the text (e.g., "href" for links, "src" for images). Default: null (text is extracted)
• multiple OPTIONAL (Boolean)Whether all matching elements (true) or only the first one (false) are returned. Default: true

💡 Example Call

{
  "tool": "ExtractText",
  "params": {
    "url": "https://example.com/products",
    "selector": ".product-title",
    "multiple": true
  }
}

Link extraction example:

{
  "tool": "ExtractText",
  "params": {
    "url": "https://example.com/articles",
    "selector": "a.read-more",
    "attribute": "href",
    "multiple": true
  }
}

Example Use Cases

• Price Monitoring

  Extract product prices from e-commerce pages for price comparisons.

  E-Commerce

• News Aggregation

  Collect headlines and articles from news sites.

  Content

• Link Extraction

  Extract all links on a page for crawling purposes.

  SEO

🔄 Return Values

The tool returns an object with the following properties:

• data (Array or String)
  The extracted content as an array (if multiple=true) or as a string (if multiple=false)
• count (Integer)
  Number of elements found
• url (String)
  The retrieved URL
• selector (String)
  The CSS selector used
• attribute (String, optional)
  The extracted attribute (if specified)
• success (Boolean)
  True if the extraction was successful
• error (String, optional)
  Error message if the extraction failed

Related Tools

• FetchTextRetrieve web page text
• FetchManyMultiple URLs in parallel
• FetchHeadersAnalyze HTTP headers
• SearchPerform a web search