scrapedown

Turn web pages into clean, readable text

By Ozan van Oosten-Şener

InstallOpens in your own Appflare
Stars
134
134 stars on the app's GitHub repository.
Installs
Under 10
Fewer than 10 Appflare users run this app, from anonymous usage data; smaller counts are not published.
Plan
Free
Runs on Cloudflare's free Workers plan.
License
MIT
An open-source license: you may use, change and share the app on its terms.
Version
Jan 18, 2024
Version 0.0.0-20240118.807d685.
Last tested
Oct 14
The catalog installed this version in a test account and it answered, on Oct 14, 2026.

About

A self-hosted alternative to Jina Reader.

Turn any web page into clean Markdown: one GET with a URL returns the article's text in reader mode, with its title, byline, excerpt and language.

Features

  • Fetch an article as Markdown by supplying its web address
  • Keep the article text and remove the surrounding page content
  • Get the title, author and excerpt alongside the article
  • Choose cleaned HTML and plain text instead of Markdown

Deploy scrapedown on Cloudflare

  1. Step 1: Set up Appflare in your Cloudflare account

    Once

    Appflare installs itself into your own Cloudflare account from your browser, and runs on the free Workers plan, as scrapedown does. See what scrapedown needs on your account.

    Set up AppflareAlready have Appflare? Install scrapedown

  2. Step 2: Install scrapedown

    scrapedown needs no keys or settings from you.

    One switch on the form puts scrapedown behind Cloudflare Access, so only the people who use your Appflare can open it.

  3. Step 3: Finish setting it up

    After the install, Appflare shows two short steps for scrapedown, on its page.

With Appflare instead of by hand

  • Nothing to build on your computerAppflare sets itself up from your browser, with no API token to create and nothing to install.
  • Updates in one clickAppflare tells you when the catalog has a new version, and Update installs it.
  • Health checksAfter every install and update, Appflare checks that the app answers.
  • It stays in your own accountEverything runs on your Cloudflare account and your plan, and Appflare records what it creates, so an uninstall removes it.

What it needs on your account

Nothing beyond a Cloudflare account on the free Workers plan.

Questions

Does scrapedown run on Cloudflare's free plan?

Yes. scrapedown runs on Cloudflare's free Workers plan, and so does Appflare.

What does scrapedown create in my Cloudflare account?

Appflare creates a Worker for scrapedown. Appflare records each resource it creates; an uninstall deletes them, keeping any data you choose to keep.

How do I update scrapedown?

When the catalog has a new version, scrapedown's page in Appflare says Update available. Select Update: Appflare takes a snapshot first, so you can roll back to the version before. You can also let Appflare update it automatically.

Is scrapedown open source?

Yes, under MIT. An open-source license: you may use, change and share the app on its terms. Its source code is at github.com/ozanvos/scrapedown.

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