Webpage Article Extraction
Found a long recipe, news article, or research paper online? Chatlo's Webpage Extractor reads any public URL, strips out the ads and navbars, and hands the pure text over to our AI models.
How Firecrawl Works
Behind the scenes, Chatlo utilizes Firecrawl to parse any URL you provide (like in the Webpage Summarizer). We send a background worker to the URL, identify the main content boundaries (ignoring sidebars and footers), and convert the HTML directly into raw Markdown.
Best Practices for URLs
- Public Pages Only: We cannot scrape articles that are behind strict paywalls or require a user login (like private Facebook groups or internal company wikis).
- Text-Heavy Pages: The extractor works best on blogs, news articles, Wikipedia pages, and documentation. It struggles with heavy Javascript single-page apps or image-only galleries.
What if scraping fails?
If the website blocks our scraper bot, Chatlo AI still tries to help! It will fall back on taking the raw URL string you provided and attempting to infer the topic of the page based on the domain and path name.