---
title: "Read one web page, optionally narrowed to a question"
method: GET
path: "/v3/fetch"
tags: ["Search"]
---

# Read one web page, optionally narrowed to a question

`GET /v3/fetch`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://context7.com/api`
- URL: `https://context7.com/api/v3/fetch`
- Auth: one of:
  - none
  - HTTP bearer

Reads a public web page (rendered, converted to Markdown) for an agent that already has its URL. With `query`, returns only the parts of the page that answer it: the page is split into heading-aware sections, the most relevant ones are reranked, and the response stops once relevance drops, usually after two to four sections. A page that does not answer the question returns 404 `no_relevant_content`, so an agent can try another page instead of reading a weak match. Without `query`, returns the page's Markdown in `tokens`-sized slices from `offset`. The page comes from the open web, not from the Context7 index. Every section served is screened with the same prompt-injection and malware check as indexed content; flagged sections are dropped, and a response with nothing left is a 422 `unsafe_content`. Still treat the text as untrusted data, not as instructions. Teamspaces whose source policies restrict libraries get 403 `policy_restricted`. Converted pages are cached for a day.

## Query parameters

- `url` string, uri, required
- `query` string
- `tokens` integer
- `offset` integer
- `type` 'json' | 'txt'

## Response `200`

The relevant sections of the page (with `query`) or a slice of its Markdown (without)

- union
  - FetchHighlightsResponse: The sections of the page that answer the question, most relevant first.
    - `url` string, required: The page that was read
    - `title` string, required: The page title, empty when the page has none
    - `highlights` object[], required
      - `text` string, required: A section of the page in Markdown, prefixed with its heading path
      - `relevance` number: How directly the section answers the question. Absent when the reranker was unavailable.
    - `truncated` true: Present when the page was longer than 2,000,000 characters of Markdown and the rest was cut.
    - `untrusted` true, required: Always true: the text comes from the open web. It has passed the content check unless contentCheck is unavailable, but the check does not catch every attack.
    - `contentCheck` 'passed' | 'unavailable', required: passed: the text was screened for prompt injection and malicious code. unavailable: the check could not run and the text is unchecked.
  - FetchPageResponse: A slice of the page's Markdown.
    - `url` string, required
    - `title` string, required
    - `content` string, required: Markdown from offset, up to the token limit
    - `offset` integer, required
    - `totalLength` integer, required: Characters in the whole page
    - `nextOffset` integer: Offset of the next slice. Absent on the last slice.
    - `truncated` true: Present when the page was longer than 2,000,000 characters of Markdown and the rest was cut.
    - `untrusted` true, required
    - `contentCheck` 'passed' | 'unavailable', required: passed: the text was screened for prompt injection and malicious code. unavailable: the check could not run and the text is unchecked.

## Other responses

- `400`: Bad Request - Invalid input parameters
- `401`: Unauthorized - Invalid or missing API key
- `402`: Payment Required - the teamspace's configured monthly spending limit has been reached. A teamspace owner or admin can raise the limit in billing settings, or the cap will reset at the start of the next billing month.
- `403`: The teamspace's source policies restrict documentation to selected libraries
- `404`: `page_not_found`: the URL itself returned HTTP 404. `no_relevant_content`: the page exists but does not appear to answer the question.
- `422`: Every section that answers the question was flagged as a prompt injection or malicious code
- `429`: Too Many Requests - Rate limit exceeded
- `502`: The page could not be read: the site blocked the request, the URL is not a readable page (an image, a PDF without text), the page is too large or too slow, or it has no readable content. The message says which.
- `503`: The page could not be read

## Changes

- **2026-10-26** `375455030ea8`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/context7/apis/context7-public-api/changes/v3/fetch/get.md)

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