About 2scrape

What Is 2scrape?

2scrape is a free, privacy-first web scraper that turns any webpage into clean, LLM-ready content. Paste a URL and get back structured output in the format you need — Markdown for feeding to Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini; JSON for downstream processing; plain text for quick reading; or cleaned HTML for archiving. There is no sign-up, no API key, and no paywall on the hero feature: single-URL extraction is unlimited within generous daily limits.

Unlike hosted scrapers that charge per call or paywall the useful features, 2scrape is designed around a simple idea: most of the time you just need the readable content of one webpage, without the nav bars, ads, cookie banners, and tracking scripts. 2scrape strips all of that and gives you only the part that matters.

How Does 2scrape Work?

2scrape runs a four-step pipeline on a stateless serverless function. Nothing you scrape is stored, logged, or attached to your identity — the request completes and the data is discarded.

  1. You paste a URL into the input field and pick an output format (Markdown, JSON, Text, or HTML).
  2. A Netlify Function fetches the page over HTTPS with a clearly identifiable user agent. Target response size is capped at 5 MB; requests that exceed it are rejected.
  3. Mozilla Readability parses the HTML, stripping navigation, ads, footers, and boilerplate. The remaining main content is converted to your chosen format using Turndown for Markdown or DOM serialization for HTML.
  4. The result is streamed back to your browser, where you can copy it to the clipboard or download it as a file. Nothing is persisted — not the URL, not the content, not even a cache entry.

Which Output Formats Does 2scrape Support?

  • Markdown — The hero format. Clean, LLM-ready Markdown with preserved heading hierarchy, links, code blocks, and lists. Ideal for pasting directly into a Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini conversation as context.
  • JSON — Structured output including title, description, canonical URL, main content (as Markdown), meta tags, Open Graph data, JSON-LD blocks, all <a> links with text, and all <img> sources with alt text.
  • Plain Text — Readability-extracted text with no markup, ideal for quick reading or pasting into a note.
  • HTML — The cleaned, Readability-processed HTML with scripts and tracking removed. Useful for archival or further processing.

Is 2scrape Legal and Ethical?

2scrape respects the target site's robots.txt file and refuses to fetch URLs that are explicitly disallowed. It sends a clearly identifiable user agent so site operators can see 2scrape traffic in their logs. Rate limits are in place to prevent abuse.

That said, scraping is a legal gray area and policies vary by jurisdiction and site. You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of the sites you scrape. Use 2scrape for legitimate purposes: research, accessibility, content extraction, archival, and AI context building. Don't use it to bypass paywalls, scrape copyrighted content at scale, or build commercial data products without permission.

Who Is 2scrape For?

  • Developers building AI apps who need clean page context to feed into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini without fighting HTML parsers.
  • SEO professionals and content auditors who want to extract and compare page content across competitors.
  • Researchers and journalists archiving primary sources in a portable format.
  • Technical writers pulling documentation into Markdown-friendly workflows.
  • Anyone tired of copying and pasting from rendered webpages and getting garbage formatting.

What Are the Rate Limits?

To keep 2scrape free and responsive for everyone, we enforce generous but firm per-IP rate limits:

  • 10 scrapes per minute — plenty for interactive use.
  • 500 scrapes per day — well beyond what any human needs.
  • 5 MB maximum target response size — keeps scraping fast and prevents abuse.
  • 8 second hard timeout on the remote fetch.

Your IP is SHA-256 hashed before being stored for rate-limit bookkeeping. The hash is purged after 24 hours.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is 2scrape?

2scrape is a free, privacy-first web scraper that turns any webpage into clean, LLM-ready content. Paste a URL and get back Markdown, JSON, plain text, or HTML — no sign-up, no tracking, no API key required.

How is 2scrape different from Firecrawl or other scrapers?

Most hosted scrapers are paywalled after a handful of free calls. 2scrape is free and unlimited for single-URL extraction, with no account required. It runs through stateless Netlify Functions that do not store the pages you scrape — queries are processed in memory and discarded immediately.

What output formats does 2scrape support?

2scrape produces Markdown (ideal for LLM context), JSON with full page metadata and structured data, plain text, and cleaned HTML. Every format can be copied to your clipboard or downloaded as a file.

Does 2scrape respect robots.txt?

Yes. 2scrape honors the target site's robots.txt file and will refuse to scrape URLs that are explicitly disallowed. It also sends a clearly identifiable user agent so site operators can see 2scrape traffic in their logs.

Are there rate limits?

Yes, to keep the tool free and responsive for everyone. Each visitor can run up to 10 scrapes per minute and 500 per day. These limits are generous for interactive use and are designed to prevent abuse, not legitimate research or content workflows.

Is 2scrape safe to use for sensitive research?

The URLs you submit are processed through a stateless Netlify Function that does not log query content. Your IP is SHA-256 hashed before rate-limit bookkeeping. The scraped content never leaves the request-response cycle — nothing is written to a database, cache, or log.

Explore the 2suite Ecosystem

2scrape is part of a growing family of free, privacy-first web tools:

  • 2seo — Free unlimited SEO and AI readiness analysis.
  • 2prompt — Master prompt wizard for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
  • 2redact — Client-side document redaction for PDFs, images, and spreadsheets.
  • 2count — Zero-friction character and word counter.
  • 2network — 16 network tools for IT professionals.
  • 2convert — Universal file converter that runs in your browser.