jina-ai/reader

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Jina AI Reader converts any URL into LLM-friendly markdown via the r.jina.ai prefix, and searches the web into markdown via s.jina.ai. It renders pages with headless Chrome or curl-impersonate, parses PDFs and Office documents, and can be self-hosted in stateless mode with optional S3-compatible caching.

Use cases

• convert web pages to markdown for LLM input
• feed clean page content into RAG pipelines
• search the web and get results as markdown for agents
• parse PDFs into LLM-readable text
• give LLM agents access to up-to-date web knowledge
• self-host a URL-to-markdown reader service

When to choose

• you need clean, LLM-friendly text extracted from arbitrary URLs
• you're building RAG or agent systems that need web content or search results
• you want a hosted API with a simple URL-prefix interface, or a self-hostable equivalent

When to avoid

• you only need simple static HTML fetching without rendering or cleaning
• you need the MongoDB-backed SaaS storage layer, which is not included in the open-source branch
• you need heavy scraping at scale without rate limits

Facets

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web-scraping proxy rag search-engine pdf llm-inference large-language-models crawlers web-development self-hosted cloud url-to-markdown llm-friendly-input web-reader serp headless-chrome mcp-server jina-ai retrieval-augmented-generation search nodejs docker web-server

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