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About Danubia
Danubia is a scraping and content extraction API designed for developers. It accepts URLs and returns the main content of web pages as clean markdown, HTML, or plain text, with navigation, ads, and boilerplate removed. The service also provides structured metadata such as title, description, and language, along with fetch metadata like the final URL and response time. Danubia operates on a prepaid credit system where users can make individual requests or batch process thousands of URLs at a reduced cost. The API respects robots.txt rules and enforces per-domain concurrency limits to ensure polite crawling. Servers are hosted in the European Union with GDPR compliance by default, and user data is never used for model training or shared with third parties. JavaScript rendering is supported but incurs higher credit costs.
Key features
- URL-to-markdown conversion
- Structured metadata extraction
- Batch processing for multiple URLs
- JavaScript rendering option
- robots.txt compliance enforcement
- EU-based hosting with GDPR compliance
- Prepaid credit system for requests
- Clean text output with boilerplate removal
Use cases
- Feeding RAG pipelines with clean web content
- Aggregating articles from multiple sources into a single feed
- Creating datasets from batches of URLs
Pros
- Returns clean, LLM-ready content with metadata
- Supports both on-demand and batch processing
- Respects robots.txt and enforces crawl delays
- Hosted in the EU with GDPR compliance
- JavaScript rendering available
Cons
- No free tier beyond public beta credits
- Batch pricing requires prepaid credits
- Does not follow links automatically (no crawling yet)
- Rate limits apply based on shared credit pool
Frequently asked questions about Danubia
What is Danubia?
Danubia is a scraping and content extraction API for developers that converts web pages into clean markdown, HTML, or plain text. It removes navigation, ads, and boilerplate while providing structured metadata such as title, description, and language.
Who is Danubia designed for?
Danubia is designed for developers and teams who need to extract clean, structured content from web pages for applications like RAG pipelines, content aggregation, or dataset creation without building custom scrapers.
Does Danubia respect website rules like robots.txt?
Yes, Danubia strictly respects robots.txt rules, including crawl delays and blocks, and enforces per-domain concurrency limits to ensure polite crawling. Redirect targets are also checked against robots.txt.
Can Danubia render JavaScript?
Yes, Danubia supports JavaScript rendering through a real browser, but this feature incurs higher credit costs compared to standard HTML fetching.
How does Danubia handle batch processing of URLs?
Danubia allows users to submit thousands of URLs for batch processing at a reduced cost per request. Batch jobs share the same prepaid credit system as on-the-fly requests, with batch fetches costing half the credits of individual requests.
Is user data stored or used for model training?
No, Danubia stores user data only to serve requests and does not use it for model training or share it with third parties. All data is processed and stored in the European Union with GDPR compliance.
