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The Web Page Scrape node retrieves content from a single webpage and returns it in a clean, structured format. Use this step when you need to analyze, summarize, or extract information from any publicly accessible URL. This node supports both raw HTML and cleaned markdown outputs, making it useful for downstream AI processing in Prompt LLM steps or for building structured research Agents. scrape.png
Check out Getting started with Agents to learn how to add this node to an Agent.

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When to use this node

Use Web Page Scrape for tasks such as:
  • Gathering content from articles, landing pages, blog posts, or documentation
  • Extracting text for summarization or competitive analysis
  • Pulling structured content for use in downstream LLM prompts
  • Normalizing webpage content before ingestion into other Agent steps

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Node configuration

Selecting the Web Page Scrape node opens its configuration panel on the right side of the Agent Builder. This node includes the following fields.

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URL (required)

Enter the webpage URL you want to scrape. You can either:
  • Paste a static URL, or
  • Insert a variable by typing / to reference Agent inputs or outputs from previous steps

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Render Output As

Choose the format for the scraped content. Available options:
  • Markdown – Returns cleaned, readable text suitable for LLM processing
  • HTML – Returns the page’s HTML structure
Markdown is recommended for most AI-powered tasks, while HTML is useful when tags, structure, or metadata are important.

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Extract main content

When enabled, Profound attempts to remove navigation elements, ads, footers, boilerplate, and other non-core content. This generally results in a cleaner output focused on the primary article or body text. Disable this option if you need the full page content without filtering.

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Output Label

Provide a descriptive label for the output of this step. The label becomes the variable name you will reference in later Agent nodes. Examples:
  • page_content
  • scraped_markdown
  • raw_html

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Output

This node returns a single text output containing the scraped page content in the selected format. The output can be used in:
  • Prompt LLM steps
  • Additional research or parsing nodes
  • API calls
  • Any downstream transformation step

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Example usage

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1. Scrape and summarize a webpage

  1. Add a Web Page Scrape step and set the URL to the page you want to analyze.
  2. Choose Markdown as the output format.
  3. Add a Prompt LLM step that references the scraped content:

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2. Extract structured data from HTML

  1. Scrape the page using the html format.
  2. Pass the HTML into a Prompt LLM step with extraction instructions:

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Best practices

  • Use Markdown output for the cleanest AI-ready text.
  • Enable Extract main content when targeting article-style pages.
  • If scraping fails, confirm that the URL is publicly accessible and does not require authentication.
  • Keep output labels clear and descriptive to simplify downstream references.

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Troubleshooting

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The scraped content is empty or incomplete

This can occur if the page relies heavily on client-side rendering or uses anti-scraping protection. Try switching to html output for more raw content.

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Boilerplate text appears in the output

Ensure Extract main content is enabled to reduce clutter.

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The URL contains variables that are not resolving

Type / to insert supported variables and avoid mismatched parameter names.