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

pip install trafilatura

Usage

Basic text extraction (Markdown)

trafilatura -u URL --markdown

Extract raw text (no formatting)

trafilatura -u URL --text

Output to file

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:

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

Extract and save:

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

Extract with metadata:

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