Playground

Configure extraction settings, choose output formats, and generate ready-to-use commands for CLI, Docker, and Apify. Open the homepage to start.

Extract from a URL

• Paste a URL into the input field on the homepage
• Press the "Extract" button
• The extracted content appears below

Extract from HTML

• Paste raw HTML into the input field instead of a URL
• Press the "Extract" button
• Contextractor processes the HTML directly without fetching anything

Upload an HTML file

• Go to the "Upload" page
• Select an HTML file from your computer
• The content is extracted immediately

Output formats

Choose your preferred output format:

• Plain text — clean text with no markup
• Markdown — preserves headings, lists, links, and basic formatting
• JSON — structured output with metadata (title, author, date, etc.)
• XML — standard XML output
• XML TEI — TEI-compliant XML for academic and archival use
• JSONL — newline-delimited JSON, one object per page (CLI only, for batch/pipeline use)

Download or copy

After extraction, you can:

• Copy the result to your clipboard
• Download the extracted content as a file

Updated: March 23, 2026