FetchText
WebTools
Description
Retrieve text content from any web page! FetchText fetches HTML content from the internet and prepares it as plain text - ready for analysis, summarization, or further processing.
Ideal for content aggregation, research, article extraction, and gathering information from online sources. Automatic cleanup removes scripts, styles, and unnecessary HTML tags.
Why This Tool Stands Out
- Lightning-Fast Retrieval of web content
- Automatic Cleanup - plain text only
- Results depend on input, configuration and implementation. Verify behavior in your environment; no accuracy, security or performance guarantee is established here.
- HTML to Text conversion
Perfect for:
Content creators, journalists, researchers, bloggers, and anyone who regularly needs to extract information from the web. Ideal for article research, competitive analysis, content aggregation, and automated monitoring systems.
Workflow support; time savings depend on the task
Instead of opening web pages manually, scrolling, ignoring ads, and copying text, you get the cleaned content with a single API call - ready to analyze and process immediately.
JSON Parameters
- url REQUIRED (String)The complete URL of the web page to retrieve. Example: "https://example.com/article"
- encoding OPTIONAL (String)The character encoding of the response. Default: "UTF-8". Alternatives: "ISO-8859-1", "Windows-1252"
- timeout OPTIONAL (Integer)Timeout in milliseconds for the HTTP request. Default: 30000 (30 seconds)
Example Call
{
"tool": "FetchText",
"params": {
"url": "https://example.com/news/article",
"encoding": "UTF-8",
"timeout": 30000
}
}
Example Use Cases
Content Aggregation
Collect article content from different sources for your platform.
PublishingResearch
Gather information for academic or journalistic research.
ResearchText Analysis
Prepare web content for NLP and AI-powered text analysis.
AI/ML
Return Values
The tool returns an object with the following properties:
- text (String)
The cleaned text content of the web page without HTML tags - url (String)
The URL actually retrieved (after redirects) - title (String)
The title of the web page (from the <title> tag) - statusCode (Integer)
The HTTP status code of the response (200, 404, etc.) - contentType (String)
The Content-Type header of the response - success (Boolean)
True if the retrieval was successful - error (String, optional)
Error message if the retrieval failed
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