Extract Clean Web Content with Anti-Bot Fallback for AI Agents & Workflows

Last edited 58 days ago

This workflow contains community nodes that are only compatible with the self-hosted version of n8n.

Clean Web Content Extraction with Anti-Bot Fallback

Extract clean and structured text from any webpage with optional fallback to an anti-bot scraping service. Ideal for AI tools and content workflows.

🧠 How it Works

This sub-workflow enables reliable and clean scraping of any public webpage by simply passing a url parameter. It is designed to be embedded into other workflows or used as a tool for AI agents.

It supports two output modes:

  • fulltext: true — returns { title, text } with full page content
  • fulltext: false — returns { title, url, content } with a short excerpt

💡 If the site is protected by anti-bot systems (like Cloudflare), it will automatically fallback to Scrape.do, a scraping API with a generous free plan.

🧩 This template requires the n8n-nodes-webpage-content-extractor community node, so it only works in self-hosted n8n environments.

🚀 Use Cases

  • As a reusable sub-workflow, via Execute Sub-workflow node.
  • As a tool for an AI Agent, compatible with Call n8n Workflow Tool.

Perfect for chatbots, summarization workflows, or RSS/feed enrichment. Empowers your AI Agent with the ability to browse and extract readable content from websites automatically.

🔖 Parameters

  • url (string): the webpage URL to scrape
  • fulltext (boolean): set true for full page content, false for summarized output

⚙️ Setup

  • Install the community node n8n-nodes-webpage-content-extractor in your self-hosted n8n instance.
  • Create a free account at Scrape.do and obtain your API Token.
  • In the workflow, locate the Scrape.do HTTP Request node and configure the credentials using your API Token.
  • Detailed step-by-step instructions are available in the workflow notes.

The Scrape.do API is only used as a fallback when conventional scraping fails, helping you preserve your API credits.

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