FlareStart
HomeNewsHow ToSources
FlareStart

Where developers start their day. All the tech news & tutorials that matter, in one place.

Quick Links

  • Home
  • News
  • Tutorials
  • Sources
  • Privacy Policy

Connect

© 2026 FlareStart. All rights reserved.

Back to articles
I Built an API That Turns Any URL Into Structured JSON — Here's How
NewsWeb Development

I Built an API That Turns Any URL Into Structured JSON — Here's How

via Dev.to WebdevThe AI Entrepreneur3h ago

Most web scrapers give you raw HTML. I wanted clean, structured JSON from any URL — no configuration, no selectors, no parsing. Just pass a URL and get organized data back. So I built it. What It Does The Web Content Extractor API takes any URL and returns structured JSON. It automatically detects the content type: Articles → title, author, date, full text, headings Products → name, price, rating, reviews, SKU, images Recipes → ingredients, instructions, prep time, servings Job postings → title, company, salary, location Events → name, date, location, description Any webpage → metadata, content, links, images How It Works Fetch the HTML Auto-detect content type using Open Graph tags, Schema.org markup, and DOM signals Score content blocks (Readability-style algorithm) to find the main content Extract structured data: metadata, headings, images, links, JSON-LD Return clean JSON Quick Example curl "https://george-the-developer--web-content-extractor-api.apify.actor/extract?url=https://te

Continue reading on Dev.to Webdev

Opens in a new tab

Read Full Article
0 views

Related Articles

News

Structuring Go projects

Lobsters • 50m ago

The Code Simplification Skill Senior Engineers Develop
News

The Code Simplification Skill Senior Engineers Develop

Medium Programming • 1h ago

These Sony headphones are under $50 and punch above their weight - and they're on sale
News

These Sony headphones are under $50 and punch above their weight - and they're on sale

ZDNet • 1h ago

Copilot Didn’t Replace Developers But Replaced Thinking
News

Copilot Didn’t Replace Developers But Replaced Thinking

Medium Programming • 1h ago

Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more
News

Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more

TechCrunch • 1h ago

Discover More Articles