HTML

Extract text from HTML

Extract visible text content from an HTML document.

Removes:

  • HTML tags
  • Scripts and styles
  • Comments

Preserves:

  • Text structure (paragraphs, lists)
  • Basic formatting indication
post/html/to-text

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.filegraph.ai (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
  • URL: https://api.filegraph.ai/html/to-text
  • Auth: API key in header X-API-Key

Response

Successful Response

textstring required

Extracted text content

format_detectedstring required

Detected input format (e.g., 'pdf', 'docx', 'image')

word_countinteger required

Number of words extracted

char_countinteger required

Number of characters extracted

used_ocrboolean required

Whether OCR was used for extraction

metadataobject

Additional format-specific metadata

Example response

{
  "char_count": 892,
  "format_detected": "pdf",
  "metadata": {
    "page_count": 3
  },
  "text": "This is the extracted text from the document...",
  "used_ocr": false,
  "word_count": 150
}

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.