How to extract only main content of text from a web page?

Web pages contain far more than their primary content. A news article includes menus, related links, ads, and footers. For AI training, search indexing, or content analysis, only the article matters.

The DOM structure provides clues: high text density and low link density indicate content; many packed links suggest navigation. Semantic tags like <article> and <main> help identify primary content.

Olostep handles this automatically:

result = app.scrape_url("https://example.com/article", {
    "formats": ["markdown"],
    "onlyMainContent": True
})

For LLMs, this matters significantly—clean content focuses model attention on relevant information instead of wasting tokens on navigation.

Key Takeaways

Main content extraction isolates core text by removing boilerplate. Olostep extracts main content automatically, returning clean markdown ready for AI processing without custom extraction logic.