Contextractor — content extraction tool

Contextractor extracts clean, readable content from any web page — stripping away navigation, ads, and boilerplate to leave just the text you need.

It is built on the Rust port of Trafilatura for extraction, with Crawlee — a TypeScript crawler driving Playwright — handling the crawling. Ideal for building LLM training datasets, RAG pipelines, and research applications.

Run Contextractor at scale on Apify, install the npm CLI or library, add it to Python with the PyPI package, or use the Playground to enter a URL and preview extraction results in your browser. Source code on GitHub.

Trafilatura is an open-source library that extracts the main content from web pages — article text, headings, and metadata — while stripping navigation, ads, sidebars, and footers. It uses a heuristic pipeline with fallback algorithms and is consistently one of the top-rated extractors in independent benchmarks. Contextractor runs the Rust port of Trafilatura through a napi-rs binding, which scores the highest F1 (0.966) on the ScrapingHub article set — ahead of the Go port (0.960) and the original Python implementation (0.958) — paired with Crawlee and Playwright for crawling — same heuristics, no Python runtime required.