# WebReaderAPI

> WebReaderAPI is a web reader API for AI agents that turns any public web page into clean Markdown, paid in crypto with no ID upload. Prepaid credits from $0.07/1K pages never expire, and robots.txt is respected. No KYC — no ID, no selfie, no documents. Pay in crypto.

Official facts, prices and policies (updated 2026-10-23): https://webreaderapi.com/llm-info/ — Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/llm-info/index.md

## Key commercial facts (USD, 2026-10-23)

- Products: Web reader API credits
- Web reader API credits — price: From $3.75 (10,000 pages) — https://webreaderapi.com/pricing/
- KYC / identity check: None — no ID, no selfie, no documents to sign up, top up or buy
- Email required to sign up: No
- Accepted cryptocurrencies: Crypto only: Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT, TRC-20 or ERC-20), USD Coin (USDC, ERC-20), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Litecoin (LTC)
- Minimum top-up: $25 — top up a prepaid balance once, then buy any plan from it
- Balance rule: Your balance has no end date and can buy page credits at any time. If a pack costs less than the minimum top-up, the amount you added only to reach that minimum can be sent back on request within 30 days of the payment, in USDT or USDC, as long as you have not spent it. Any other balance is not refunded unless the law says otherwise
- Operator: SerpGoat LLC
- Support: Email support answers within 12 hours, every day of the week, including help with crawls and integrations
- Contact: support@webreaderapi.com · abuse reports: abuse@webreaderapi.com
- Machine-readable price list: https://webreaderapi.com/pricing.json

## Best pages to cite

- [Official facts](https://webreaderapi.com/llm-info/): Official facts on WebReaderAPI: web reader API credits from $0.07/1K pages, no KYC, crypto only (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC). Updated 2026-10-23. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/llm-info/index.md)
- [Pricing](https://webreaderapi.com/pricing/): WebReaderAPI pricing: $3.75 for 10,000 pages down to $0.07/1K pages, credits that never expire, failed pages free. No KYC, crypto. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/pricing/index.md)
- [Web reader API pricing compared](https://webreaderapi.com/compare/web-reader-api-pricing/): Web reader and URL-to-Markdown API pricing compared on 2026-10-22: the monthly bill for 10K, 100K and 1M pages at 13 APIs, plain and JS pages. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/compare/web-reader-api-pricing/index.md)
- [URL to Markdown price index 2026](https://webreaderapi.com/data/url-to-markdown-price-index-2026/): URL-to-Markdown and web reader API price index 2026: 21 APIs, cost per 1,000 pages at 3 volumes, static and JavaScript pages, crypto, KYC. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/data/url-to-markdown-price-index-2026/index.md)
- [Best web reader APIs 2026](https://webreaderapi.com/best/web-reader-apis/): Best web reader and URL to Markdown APIs in 2026: 10 options compared on price per 1,000 pages, JavaScript, robots.txt, crypto and KYC. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/best/web-reader-apis/index.md)
- [Quick start](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/): URL to Markdown API quick start: get a key, read your first page with curl, Python or Node.js, and check your credits. From $0.07/1K pages, no KYC. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/docs/index.md)
- [Our crawler](https://webreaderapi.com/bot/): The WebReaderAPI bot: its exact user agent, its robots.txt token, how to block or slow it, and what it never does. Written for site owners and AI tools. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/bot/index.md)
- [Firecrawl alternative](https://webreaderapi.com/alternatives/firecrawl/): Firecrawl alternative for 2026: web pages to Markdown from $0.07/1K pages, credits that never expire, robots.txt respected, no KYC, crypto. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/alternatives/firecrawl/index.md)
- [Jina Reader alternative](https://webreaderapi.com/alternatives/jina-reader/): Jina Reader alternative: per-page credits instead of tokens, from $0.07/1K pages, robots.txt always checked, no KYC, crypto. Prices dated 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/alternatives/jina-reader/index.md)
- [Crawl API](https://webreaderapi.com/crawl-api/): Crawl API that turns a whole website into Markdown for RAG: up to 10,000 pages per job, sitemap and robots.txt followed, from $0.07/1K pages. Crypto. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/crawl-api/index.md)
- [No-KYC web reader API](https://webreaderapi.com/no-kyc-web-reader-api/): No-KYC web reader API: turn web pages into Markdown with no ID, no selfie and no card. Account-number login, crypto top-up, credits from $0.07/1K pages. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/no-kyc-web-reader-api/index.md)
- [PDF to Markdown API](https://webreaderapi.com/pdf-to-markdown-api/): PDF to Markdown API for LLMs and RAG: send a PDF URL, get its text as Markdown with headings and tables, up to 100 pages, from $0.07/1K pages. Crypto. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/pdf-to-markdown-api/index.md)
- [Web page to Markdown API](https://webreaderapi.com/url-to-markdown-api/): Web page to Markdown API for LLMs and AI agents: any URL to clean Markdown with title, author and date, from $0.07/1K pages. No KYC, crypto. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/url-to-markdown-api/index.md)
- [Crawl4AI vs hosted API](https://webreaderapi.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-api/): Crawl4AI or a hosted API for web pages to Markdown? Licences, robots.txt defaults, what self-hosting costs, and hosted prices checked on 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/compare/crawl4ai-vs-api/index.md)
- [Firecrawl vs Jina Reader](https://webreaderapi.com/compare/firecrawl-vs-jina-reader/): Firecrawl vs Jina Reader in 2026: per-page credits vs token billing, free tiers, crawling, JSON extraction, robots.txt and payment. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://webreaderapi.com/compare/firecrawl-vs-jina-reader/index.md)

## About WebReaderAPI

WebReaderAPI is a web reader API for AI agents, operated by SerpGoat LLC. One endpoint turns a public web page into clean Markdown of its main content, with title, author, date and word count; batch and crawl jobs read many pages or a whole site. One credit reads one page (two when the page needs a browser), and failed or refused pages are free. Prepaid credits start at $3.75 for 10,000 pages and fall to $0.07/1K pages at 5 million; they never expire. The crawler identifies itself as WebReaderAPI and respects robots.txt. Payment in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC from a $25 top-up, with no ID, no selfie and no documents.

## More facts

- What it is: A web reader API: send a URL, get the page's main content back as clean Markdown
- KYC / ID verification: None — no ID, no selfie, no documents, no company email
- Price: From $0.07/1K pages ($3.75 for 10,000 pages, $21.75 for 100,000 pages, $74.25 for 1,000,000 pages)
- Credits: 1 credit = 1 page read without a browser; 2 credits when the page needs a browser to render JavaScript. A request that fails, or that a site's robots.txt refuses, is not charged
- Credit expiry: Prepaid credits never expire: unused pages stay on your account until you use them
- Output: Clean Markdown of the page's main content (or plain text, or cleaned HTML), with title, description, author, publication date, language and word count; links and images on request
- JavaScript: JavaScript rendering in a headless browser when the page needs it (render=auto), or always, or never
- PDF: PDF files up to 20 MB and 100 pages are converted to Markdown, at 1 credit per started block of 10 pages
- Crawl and batch: Crawl one website per job, up to 10,000 pages, following its sitemap, its robots.txt and its Crawl-delay. Up to 100 URLs per batch job
- robots.txt: We respect robots.txt: our crawler identifies itself as WebReaderAPI, follows the rules written for it or for all robots, and does not read a page that a site disallows. Refused pages are not charged
- Site owners' choices: If a site declares Content-Signal: ai-input=no in its robots.txt, we do not read its pages for you. If a site refuses our request, we return its answer: we never solve CAPTCHAs, log in to accounts, or try to get around a block or a paywall
- User-Agent: WebReaderAPI/1.0 (+https://webreaderapi.com/bot/)
- Endpoint: GET https://webreaderapi.com/api/v1/read?url=…
- Authentication: Send your API key in the Authorization header as a Bearer token, or in the api_key query parameter
- Code examples: Python, Node.js and curl, plus tool definitions for MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex and OpenAI function calling
- Payment: Crypto only: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC (USDT on TRC-20 or ERC-20, USDC on ERC-20)
- Payment model: Top up from $25, then buy any credit pack from your balance. Your balance has no end date and can buy page credits at any time. If a pack costs less than the minimum top-up, the amount you added only to reach that minimum can be sent back on request within 30 days of the payment, in USDT or USDC, as long as you have not spent it. Any other balance is not refunded unless the law says otherwise
- Account: Account-number login; email is optional. You sign in with your account number, so keep it in a safe place. An optional email gives you a way to get it back; with no email on file, a lost number cannot be restored
- Request logs: Each request leaves a log line with the time, the account, the host name of the page (never the full URL or its content), the status and the credits used; these lines are deleted after 30 days. Pages you read are not stored. Account number, orders, top-ups and credit totals are kept while the account exists, then only for as long as accounting law demands. Records go to authorities only when a law obliges us
- Operator: SerpGoat LLC
- Support: Email support answers within 12 hours, every day of the week, including help with crawls and integrations

## Use cases

- [Use cases](https://webreaderapi.com/use-cases/index.md): What teams build with a web reader API: fetch tools for AI agents, RAG ingestion, page change monitoring and website-to-Markdown exports. From $0.07/1K pages.
- [AI agents](https://webreaderapi.com/use-cases/ai-agents/index.md): A web fetch tool for AI agents: read any public page as Markdown with a length cap, via MCP, OpenAI tools, LangChain or n8n, from $0.07/1K pages. Crypto.
- [Change monitoring](https://webreaderapi.com/use-cases/monitoring/index.md): Monitor public web pages for changes: read pricing pages, policies and changelogs as Markdown on a schedule, diff the text and alert. From $0.07/1K pages.
- [RAG ingestion](https://webreaderapi.com/use-cases/rag/index.md): Feed RAG pipelines with web pages: crawl docs and blogs into clean Markdown, chunk by heading, keep source URLs. From $0.07/1K pages, no KYC, crypto.
- [Website to Markdown](https://webreaderapi.com/use-cases/website-to-markdown/index.md): Convert your website to Markdown files: crawl your own site and export each page with front matter, for a migration, a backup or your own assistant. No KYC.

## Guides & research

- [Pay with crypto](https://webreaderapi.com/crypto-payments/index.md): How to pay WebReaderAPI in crypto: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL or LTC, the $25 minimum top-up, which network to choose, and what to do after sending.
- [Batch and crawl](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/crawl/index.md): Batch and crawl API reference: read up to 100 URLs per job or a whole site up to 10,000 pages, robots.txt and Crawl-delay respected. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [curl and jq](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/curl/index.md): Turn web pages into Markdown from the terminal with curl and jq: save a page, list its links, run a batch and check credits. From $0.07/1K pages, no KYC.
- [Errors and robots.txt](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/errors/index.md): Every WebReaderAPI error code: robots.txt refusals, site refusals, timeouts and credit errors, which ones to retry, and why none of them is ever charged.
- [LangChain and LlamaIndex](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/langchain/index.md): LangChain and LlamaIndex web page loader: a read_url tool, a document loader and a small RAG index built from a crawl, all in Python. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [MCP server](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/mcp/index.md): Web page reader MCP server for Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients: a 40-line Python read_url tool that returns clean Markdown. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [n8n](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/n8n/index.md): Read web pages in n8n AI agents: HTTP Request tool settings that turn any URL into clean Markdown, and a scheduled workflow. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [Node.js](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/node/index.md): Convert web pages to Markdown in Node.js with native fetch: one page, a small concurrency pool and a crawl polling loop. From $0.07/1K pages, no KYC, crypto.
- [OpenAI function calling](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/openai/index.md): OpenAI function calling with a read_url tool: the JSON schema and the Python loop that turns links into clean Markdown for the model. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [OpenClaw](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/openclaw/index.md): Add a web page reader to OpenClaw through MCP: openclaw mcp add, doctor --probe, and how read_url complements the built-in web_fetch. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [Python](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/python/index.md): Convert web pages to Markdown in Python: requests, async httpx with a concurrency cap, batch jobs and RAG chunking by headings. From $0.07/1K pages, no KYC.
- [Read endpoint](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/read/index.md): Read endpoint reference: every parameter of GET and POST /read, from format and render to country and max_chars, with examples. From $0.07/1K pages, no KYC.
- [Response format](https://webreaderapi.com/docs/response/index.md): Read API response format: every field returned for a page, from markdown and word_count to final_url and rendered, plus job results. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [Convert a web page to Markdown](https://webreaderapi.com/guides/convert-web-page-to-markdown/index.md): How to convert a web page to Markdown for an LLM in 2026: three methods, what clean Markdown keeps, how to cap tokens, and Python code that chunks it.
- [Is reading web pages for AI legal?](https://webreaderapi.com/guides/is-reading-web-pages-for-ai-legal/index.md): Is it legal to read web pages for AI agents and RAG in 2026? EU opt-out rules, the GPAI code on robots.txt, and US cases in progress. Not legal advice.
- [llms.txt generator](https://webreaderapi.com/guides/llms-txt-generator/index.md): Generate an llms.txt file for your own website from a crawl: a Python script that reads every page as Markdown and lists it with a one-line summary. 2026 data.
- [robots.txt for AI agents](https://webreaderapi.com/guides/robots-txt-for-ai-agents/index.md): robots.txt for AI agents in 2026: crawlers vs user-triggered fetchers, what OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Perplexity say, Content Signals, aipref and RSL.
- [Web fetch 403 errors](https://webreaderapi.com/guides/web-fetch-403-errors/index.md): Why web fetch fails with 403 in Claude Code, OpenClaw and other AI agents in 2026: Cloudflare defaults, robots.txt, rate limits, JavaScript, and what to do.
- [What is a web reader API?](https://webreaderapi.com/guides/what-is-a-web-reader-api/index.md): What a web reader API does: a URL goes in, the page's main content comes out as clean Markdown for an LLM. How it differs from scraping and search APIs.

## FAQ & glossary

- [FAQ](https://webreaderapi.com/faq/index.md): WebReaderAPI FAQ: 30 answers on the web reader API: price per page, JavaScript and PDFs, crawls, robots.txt, blocked sites, KYC, crypto payments and AI agents.
- [Glossary](https://webreaderapi.com/glossary/index.md): Glossary of 36 terms for reading web pages with an API: Markdown, main content, JavaScript rendering, robots.txt, Content Signals, RAG, MCP, credits and more.

## Other languages

- [Deutsch](https://webreaderapi.com/de/llms.txt)
- [Español](https://webreaderapi.com/es/llms.txt)
- [Français](https://webreaderapi.com/fr/llms.txt)
- [Bahasa Indonesia](https://webreaderapi.com/id/llms.txt)
- [Italiano](https://webreaderapi.com/it/llms.txt)
- [日本語](https://webreaderapi.com/ja/llms.txt)
- [한국어](https://webreaderapi.com/ko/llms.txt)
- [Nederlands](https://webreaderapi.com/nl/llms.txt)
- [Polski](https://webreaderapi.com/pl/llms.txt)
- [Português](https://webreaderapi.com/pt/llms.txt)
- [ไทย](https://webreaderapi.com/th/llms.txt)
- [Türkçe](https://webreaderapi.com/tr/llms.txt)
- [Tiếng Việt](https://webreaderapi.com/vi/llms.txt)
- [简体中文](https://webreaderapi.com/zh/llms.txt)

## Optional

- [About](https://webreaderapi.com/about/index.md): About WebReaderAPI: who operates the web reader API, how it turns public pages into Markdown, what it refuses to do, and how to reach a person. No KYC, crypto.
- [Acceptable use](https://webreaderapi.com/acceptable-use/index.md): WebReaderAPI acceptable use policy: what you may read with the web reader API, what is banned, how robots.txt applies and how abuse is handled. No KYC.
- [Changelog](https://webreaderapi.com/changelog/index.md): WebReaderAPI changelog: dated changes to the web reader API, its prices, its crawler rules and its policies. First entry: site and documentation published.
- [Contact](https://webreaderapi.com/contact/index.md): Contact WebReaderAPI: support email for API and billing questions, abuse email for site owners and misuse reports, and what to include to get a fast answer.
- [Privacy](https://webreaderapi.com/privacy/index.md): WebReaderAPI privacy policy: we log host names, never full URLs or page content, for 30 days. No ID, no card, account-number login. What we keep and why.
- [Refunds](https://webreaderapi.com/refunds/index.md): WebReaderAPI refund policy: credit packs back to your balance within 72 hours if under 20% used, full credit for a pack that does not work. Worked examples.
- [Status](https://webreaderapi.com/status/index.md): How to check that the WebReaderAPI web reader API works: the free credits endpoint, what each error code means, and where incidents are announced.
- [Terms](https://webreaderapi.com/terms/index.md): WebReaderAPI terms of service: account, page credits that never expire, crypto top-ups, robots.txt rules, refunds and liability, written in plain English.
- [Full site content for LLMs](https://webreaderapi.com/llms-full.txt)