Quickstart

Get started with Octivas in under 2 minutes. This guide walks you through making your first API request.

Get started with Octivas in just a few steps. This guide will walk you through making your first API request.

1. Get your API key

2. Install the SDK

npm install octivas

pip install octivas

No installation needed — use cURL directly from your terminal.

3. Make your first request

import Octivas from 'octivas';

const client = new Octivas('your_api_key');

const result = await client.extract({
  url: 'https://example.com',
  formats: ['markdown']
});

console.log(result.markdown);

import octivas

client = octivas.Client("your_api_key")

result = client.extract(
    url="https://example.com",
    formats=["markdown"]
)

print(result.markdown)

curl -X POST https://api.octivas.com/api/v1/scrape \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com",
    "formats": ["markdown"]
  }'

What's Next?

Authentication

Learn about API key security best practices.

Scrape API

Extract content from any webpage.

Crawl API

Crawl entire websites at scale.

Search API

Search the web with content extraction.