---
title: "Fetch any URL and return its article content with the..."
method: GET
path: "/api/url/clean"
tags: ["url"]
---

# Fetch any URL and return its article content with the...

`GET /api/url/clean`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://2s.io`
- URL: `https://2s.io/api/url/clean`
- Auth: API key in header `PAYMENT-SIGNATURE`

Fetch any URL and return its article content with the clutter stripped — nav, ads, sidebars, footers, scripts, styles, comments removed via heuristic extraction (<article> / <main> / role=main / densest block). Choose the output with `format`: markdown (default), text, both (JSON envelope), html (a self-contained readable reader-view page, raw text/html), or pdf (a clean typeset reading document, raw application/pdf). html/pdf are built from the same cleaned content, so they carry no live page, no third-party assets, no trackers. SSRF-guarded, 512KB body cap, 8s timeout, 5 redirects max. JSON formats return { url, finalUrl, title, markdown?, text?, wordCount, sourceBytes }. This uses a raw HTTP fetch (no JavaScript) — for client-rendered / SPA pages whose content only appears after JS runs, use /api/url/render (same formats, headless-rendered). For a pixel-perfect image of the live page use /api/ai/screenshot; to enumerate a page or sitemap into its links use /api/url/map.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, uri, required
- `format` 'markdown' | 'text' | 'both' | 'html' | 'pdf'
- `trial` 1

## Response `200`

OK

## Other responses

- `400`: Invalid request — not charged. error.code: BAD_REQUEST or INVALID_PARAM (parameter validation; error.details.issues lists each problem), MALFORMED_JSON, or a request-specific code. Other client errors: 405 METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED (wrong verb; see the Allow header), 413 PAYLOAD_TOO_LARGE.
- `402`: Payment required. Body is the x402 PaymentRequirements envelope with a multi-network accepts array; the per-call price is in accepts[].amount (and on the operation as x-2s-price). Sign for whichever rail you hold USDC on (EIP-3009 for Base, partial SPL transfer for Solana) and retry with the PAYMENT-SIGNATURE header (X-PAYMENT also accepted for v1 clients). Also PAYMENT_SETTLE_FAILED (error envelope) when a verified payment failed to settle: error.details.chargeStatus is "not_charged" (retry with a fresh payment) or "unknown" (the authorization may still settle before its deadline — check it before retrying).
- `429`: Too many requests — RATE_LIMITED: our per-IP / per-payer limiter. Not charged; retry after Retry-After.
- `5XX`: Server-side failure. 500 INTERNAL: unexpected error; quote error.errorId (also the X-2s-Error-Id header). 502 UPSTREAM_UNAVAILABLE (or another UPSTREAM_* code): the data provider failed — composite endpoints refuse unbilled when every source fails. 503 SERVICE_PAUSED: endpoint paused by the operator kill switch, retry after Retry-After; 503 SPEND_CAP: daily upstream budget exhausted. 504 UPSTREAM_TIMEOUT. Not charged.

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