Clean Copy
Extract the readable text from a public article page. Clean Copy removes common page clutter such as navigation, advertising areas, sidebars and interface elements while keeping the useful article content.
Extracted article
What does Clean Copy do?
Article pages often contain much more than the article itself. Navigation menus, promotional sections, related-content modules, newsletter prompts, social controls and other page elements can make it inconvenient to work with the main text.
Clean Copy attempts to identify the primary readable content of a public article and presents it in a simpler format. Useful structure such as headings, paragraphs, lists, quotations and links can be retained when detected.
How to use it
Copy the address of a publicly accessible article page.
Paste the URL above and select Extract Clean Text.
Review the formatted or plain-text result and copy it when useful.
Privacy and data handling
Clean Copy processes a submitted public URL in order to return the extracted content. The Clean Copy application is designed without user accounts, saved article collections or an article-content database.
Extraction responses are configured not to be cached by the Clean Copy application endpoint.
What pages are supported?
Clean Copy is intended for normal, publicly accessible article-style HTML pages. Results vary because websites use different layouts and publishing systems.
Some highly interactive pages, JavaScript-only applications, non-HTML documents or pages that deliberately restrict automated access may not extract successfully.
Restricted content
Clean Copy does not provide credentials, subscription access or mechanisms for bypassing login pages, paywalls, CAPTCHAs or other access controls. If a page is not publicly accessible to the extraction service, the tool may return an error instead of article text.
Why can extracted text differ from the webpage?
Content extraction is based on identifying the part of a page that most resembles the primary article. Websites can contain unusual layouts, embedded widgets, dynamically loaded sections and other structures that affect the result. You should check important information against the original source.
Can I copy the result?
The Copy Clean Text button copies the extracted plain text to your clipboard. How you may reuse material from a source can depend on copyright, licensing, quotation rules and other applicable requirements. Clean Copy does not grant rights to third-party content.
Frequently asked questions
Does Clean Copy change the article?
Its purpose is extraction rather than rewriting. It attempts to isolate readable content and remove unrelated webpage interface elements.
Why did my URL fail?
The page may block automated requests, require authentication, return a non-HTML resource, take too long to respond or use a structure from which useful article content cannot be identified.
Does it work on every website?
No. There is no universal article structure, so extraction quality and compatibility vary between websites.
Where can I find more GILKUT tools?
Visit the GILKUT Web Tools collection, or explore our country-specific calculators from the main GILKUT homepage.