Vellby Reader

Extracts clean, readable text from any public URL. Respects robots.txt.

This service is internal. Auth via X-Reader-Token header is required. External traffic is routed through the Vellby backend.

POST /extract

curl -X POST https://thing.vellby.com/extract \
  -H "X-Reader-Token: <token>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping"}'

Response

{
  "url": "https://...",
  "title": "Article Title",
  "text": "Clean extracted prose...",
  "author": "Author or null",
  "date": "2024-01-15 or null",
  "language": "en or null"
}

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