Extract readable text from a web page from its URL.
About Convert Web to Text
Reading a long article through banners and menus, feeding a page to a summariser, counting words or archiving the content of a page all need the plain text without the HTML. This tool downloads the page you point it to, strips scripts and styles and returns the visible text of the body with the whitespace collapsed, together with a character count.
Paste the URL and click Extract; copy the text when it appears. Because browsers block direct requests to other sites, the page is fetched through the public proxy api.allorigins.win, so the URL you enter is sent to that service. The extracted text itself is processed in your browser.
How to use Convert Web to Text step by step
Paste the full URL of the page, including https://.
Click "Extract text". The page is fetched through a CORS proxy and parsed.
Read or copy the text from the result box; the character count is shown above it. Click "Clear" to start again.
Input and output example
Input
https://example.com/
Output
Example Domain This domain is for use in illustrative examples in documents. You may use this domain in literature without prior coordination or asking for permission. More information...
Why use our Convert Web to Text?
100% free and online: no payments, no software or extensions to install.
Privacy-first: processing happens in your browser, your data never leaves your device.
No sign-up: paste your data and get the result in one click.
Fast and reliable: handle small or large files in seconds, ready for Excel and other tools.
Common use cases
Get the plain text of an article to paste into an AI assistant, a translator or a text-to-speech tool.
Count the characters or words of a competitor's landing page.
Archive the content of a page as text before it changes.
Extract the body of a public documentation page to search it locally.
Limits and tips
Pages that require login, block bots or are rendered entirely by JavaScript return little or no text, because the proxy fetches the raw HTML only.
Navigation menus, footers and cookie banners are included in the text since only script and style elements are removed.
All whitespace is collapsed to single spaces, so paragraphs and headings run together in one block.
The proxy is a third-party free service and can be slow or temporarily unavailable; retry later if the extraction fails.
Frequently asked questions
Why is a proxy needed to read a web page?
Browsers enforce the same-origin policy: a script on csvcreator.com cannot read the HTML of another domain unless that site allows it with CORS headers, which most do not. The tool therefore asks api.allorigins.win to fetch the page and hand back the HTML. Only the URL is shared with that proxy.
Does the tool keep the paragraphs and headings?
No. It returns the text content of the body with all line breaks and repeated spaces replaced by a single space. It is meant for reading, counting and further processing rather than for preserving layout.
Why do I get an error or empty text?
The site refused the proxy request, requires authentication, returns its content through JavaScript, or the proxy is down. Check that the URL opens in a normal browser tab and try again; some sites cannot be fetched this way.
What is the difference between this tool and reader mode?
Reader mode in browsers uses heuristics to keep only the main article and preserves formatting. This tool returns all visible text of the page as one block, with no attempt to detect the main content, but it gives you the text as data you can copy or count.
Is the page content stored?
No. The HTML passes through the proxy and is parsed in your browser; the text stays on the page until you clear it. Consult the proxy's own policy for what it logs.
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