Convert any web page URL into clean, LLM-ready markdown using Jina Reader (r.jina.ai)
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Documented steps
GET https://r.jina.ai/<full-target-url> (e.g. curl "https://r.jina.ai/https://www.example.com"); works with no key at a low rate limit. Docs: https://jina.ai/reader/ and https://docs.jina.ai/.
Add 'Authorization: Bearer $JINA_API_KEY' (free key from https://jina.ai/) for much higher rate limits.
Control output with request headers (https://docs.jina.ai/): X-Return-Format (markdown|html|text|screenshot|pageshot), X-Engine (browser for best quality, direct for speed, cf-browser-rendering), X-Target-Selector / X-Wait-For-Selector / X-Remove-Selector (CSS selectors to focus, wait for, or strip elements), X-Timeout, X-Token-Budget (max tokens), X-Retain-Images: none (strip images), X-With-Generated-Alt (generated alt text for images), X-No-Cache: true (bypass cache), X-Locale, X-Set-Cookie, X-Proxy-Url.
Choose the response shape with the Accept header: default is plain text/markdown; 'Accept: application/json' returns JSON with url/title/content; 'Accept: text/event-stream' streams large pages incrementally.
Known gotchas
Rate limits by tier (https://jina.ai/reader/): no key 20 RPM; free API key 500 RPM; premium key 5,000 RPM.
Requesting the same URL within ~5 minutes returns cached content — set X-No-Cache: true when you need a fresh fetch.
X-Respond-With: readerlm-v2 uses ReaderLM-v2 for higher-quality HTML-to-Markdown conversion but costs 3x tokens.
For EU data residency use https://eu.r.jina.ai/ instead of r.jina.ai.
Jina introduced a new (token-based) pricing model on May 6, 2025 — check current pricing on jina.ai before budgeting heavy usage.
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