URL to Text
Fetch any live URL and get back clean, readable text — navigation, headers, footers, and scripts stripped out — for research, accessibility, and content analysis.
Input
The page is fetched server-side and its readable text is returned, with page chrome stripped out.
Output
Guides
What this tool does
Enter a live URL and this tool fetches the page server-side and strips away navigation menus, headers, footers, forms, and scripts — leaving clean, readable text with paragraph breaks preserved. It's useful for pulling an article's content for research or accessibility, feeding text into another tool, or just reading a page without the surrounding clutter.
How to use it
- Enter the page's URL.
- Click Extract text.
- Copy the result or download it as a
.txtfile.
Frequently asked questions
Why does this run on the server instead of my browser? Browsers block cross-origin page fetches (CORS) for most sites, so extracting text from an arbitrary URL has to happen server-side. Only the requested page is fetched; nothing else is stored.
How is this different from copy-pasting the page's text?
Copy-pasting picks up whatever's visible in your window, including navigation and footer text. This tool strips known chrome elements (<nav>, <header>, <footer>, <aside>, <form>) and scripts before extracting text, so the result is closer to just the page's actual content.
Can I summarize the extracted text with AI instead of just reading it? Yes — the AI URL Summarizer does exactly that: it fetches the page the same way, then asks AI to condense it.
Does it work on JavaScript-rendered pages? No. It only sees the text present in the HTML the server returns on the initial request — content injected by client-side JavaScript after page load won't appear in the result.
Use it from code
From 3 credits per callREST API
curl -X POST https://api.iotools.cloud/v1/tool/url-to-text \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com"
}'Swap in your own key from your account. The tool's fields are the body — no wrapper.
Ask an AI agent
Use the IOTools `url-to-text` tool (URL to Text) on this input:
YOUR_INPUT_HEREPaste this at any agent connected to the IOTools MCP server, then add your input.