tra-extract-text
v1.0.0Extract text content from web pages using trafilatura CLI. Use when user wants to extract readable text, markdown, or raw HTML from a URL. Triggers on requests like: "extract text from URL", "scrape web page content", "get article text", "convert web page to markdown", "trafilatura".
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Authored by goog
Installation
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tra-extract-text
Extract text from web pages using the trafilatura command-line tool.
Installation
pip install trafilatura
Usage
Basic text extraction (Markdown)
trafilatura -u URL --markdown
Extract raw text (no formatting)
trafilatura -u URL --text
Output to file
trafilatura -u URL --markdown > output.md
trafilatura -u URL --text > output.txt
CLI Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-u, --url |
Target URL (required) |
--markdown |
Output as Markdown (default) |
--text |
Output as plain text |
--html |
Output as HTML |
--json |
Output as JSON |
--xml |
Output as XML |
-o, --output |
Write to file instead of stdout |
--with-metadata |
Include metadata (title, author, date) |
--license |
Show license info |
Examples
Extract a Medium article to markdown:
trafilatura -u "https://medium.com/example/article" --markdown
Extract and save:
trafilatura -u "https://news.example.com/article" --markdown -o article.md
Extract with metadata:
trafilatura -u "https://example.com/post" --markdown --with-metadata