Scrape Markdown

HTTP status	Billed?	Meaning
200	Yes — 1 credit, or 2 credits with actions	Successful scrape, including a zero-length result when includeSelectors matched nothing
400	No	Invalid input, skipped PDF, or the page could not be scraped
401 / 403	No	Invalid/disabled key, insufficient permissions, or credits exhausted; inspect error_code
404	No	Target page returned or fingerprinted as not found
408	No	Request timed out
415	No	Unsupported content type
429	No	Per-minute rate limit exceeded; honor Retry-After
500	No	Internal error

urlstring uri required

Full URL to scrape into LLM usable Markdown (must include http:// or https:// protocol)

boolean

OR

'true' | 'false'

Preserve hyperlinks in Markdown output

boolean

OR

'true' | 'false'

Include image references in Markdown output

boolean

OR

'true' | 'false'

Shorten base64-encoded image data in the Markdown output

boolean

OR

'true' | 'false'

Extract only the main content of the page, excluding headers, footers, sidebars, and navigation

startinteger

First 1-based PDF page to parse. When omitted, parsing starts at the first page.

endinteger

Last 1-based PDF page to parse. When omitted, parsing ends at the last page. Must be greater than or equal to start when both are provided.

PDF parsing controls. Use start/end to limit text extraction and embedded-image detection/OCR to an inclusive 1-based page range.

boolean

OR

'true' | 'false'

When true, the contents of iframes are rendered to Markdown.

includeSelectorsstring[] nullable

CSS selectors. When provided, only matching HTML subtrees (and their descendants) are kept before conversion to Markdown. When omitted, the entire document is kept. Examples: "article.main", "#content", "[role=main]".

excludeSelectorsstring[] nullable

CSS selectors to remove before conversion to Markdown. Applied after includeSelectors. Exclusion takes precedence: an element matching both is removed. Examples: "nav", "footer", ".ad-banner", "[aria-hidden=true]".

maxAgeMsinteger nullable

Return a cached result if a prior scrape for the same parameters exists and is younger than this many milliseconds. Defaults to 1 day (86400000 ms) when omitted. Max is 30 days (2592000000 ms). Set to 0 to always scrape fresh.

waitForMsinteger nullable

Optional browser wait time in milliseconds after initial page load before converting the page to Markdown. Min: 0. Max: 30000 (30 seconds).

boolean

OR

'true' | 'false'

When true, waits briefly for CSS and transition animations to settle before converting to Markdown. Defaults to false. This adds a bit of latency in exchange for more stable output on animated pages.

Optional browser actions executed in array order after the page loads and before content is captured. Requires a paid plan. Send a JSON array in the query parameter. Maximum: 5 actions.

headersobject

Optional outbound HTTP headers forwarded only to the target URL, sent as deep-object query params such as headers[X-Custom]=value. When provided, caching is bypassed: the result is neither read from nor written to cache.

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Fetch the target page through a residential proxy in this country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).

Example:de

Fetch the target page through a residential proxy in this country (ISO 3166-1 alpha-2).

timeoutMSinteger

Optional timeout in milliseconds for the request. If the request takes longer than this value, it will be aborted with a 408 status code. Maximum allowed value is 300000ms (5 minutes).

zdr'enabled' | 'disabled'

Set to enabled to bypass shared caches and omit request and response content from retained usage logs. Requires zero data retention to be enabled for your organization (contact support@context.dev), otherwise the request fails with ZDR_NOT_ENABLED. Successful ZDR responses include X-Context-ZDR: true.

tagsstring[]

Optional tags for tracking usage. Up to 20 tags, each 1 to 50 characters.

Optional comma-separated caller-defined tags for tracking this request. Tags are recorded on the request's usage log and can be used to filter usage on the dashboard usage page. Up to 20 tags, each 1-50 characters.

[
  "production",
  "team-alpha"
]

v10

Billing & errors

Query parameters

Response