tra-extract-text

Extract readable text, markdown, HTML, JSON, or XML content from web pages using the trafilatura CLI tool with optional metadata and output formatting.

Extract text from web pages using the trafilatura command-line tool.

Installation

bash

pip install trafilatura

Usage

Basic text extraction (Markdown)

bash

trafilatura -u URL --markdown

Extract raw text (no formatting)

bash

trafilatura -u URL --text

Output to file

bash

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:

bash

trafilatura -u "https://medium.com/example/article" --markdown

Extract and save:

bash

trafilatura -u "https://news.example.com/article" --markdown -o article.md

Extract with metadata:

bash

trafilatura -u "https://example.com/post" --markdown --with-metadata