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Use Jina AI Reader to extract content from a URL, or Search to retrieve web results. Configure the parsing and output-format options for the content your downstream blocks need.

Use the block

Search the web and get LLM-friendly results, or extract clean content from specific URLs with advanced parsing options.

Actions

Jina Reader

Extract and process web content into clean, LLM-friendly text using Jina AI Reader. Supports advanced content parsing, link gathering, and multiple output formats with configurable processing options.

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`url`	string	Yes	The URL to read and convert to markdown (e.g., "https://example.com/page")
`useReaderLMv2`	boolean	No	Whether to use ReaderLM-v2 for better quality (3x token cost)
`gatherLinks`	boolean	No	Whether to gather all links at the end
`jsonResponse`	boolean	No	Whether to return response in JSON format
`apiKey`	string	Yes	Your Jina AI API key
`withImagesummary`	boolean	No	Gather all images from the page with metadata
`retainImages`	string	No	Control image inclusion: "none" removes all, "all" keeps all
`returnFormat`	string	No	Output format: markdown, html, text, screenshot, or pageshot
`withIframe`	boolean	No	Include iframe content in extraction
`withShadowDom`	boolean	No	Extract Shadow DOM content
`noCache`	boolean	No	Bypass cached content for real-time retrieval
`withGeneratedAlt`	boolean	No	Generate alt text for images using VLM
`robotsTxt`	string	No	Bot User-Agent for robots.txt checking
`dnt`	boolean	No	Do Not Track - prevents caching/tracking
`noGfm`	boolean	No	Disable GitHub Flavored Markdown

Output

Parameter	Type	Description
`content`	string	The extracted content from the URL, processed into clean, LLM-friendly text
`tokensUsed`	number	Number of Jina tokens consumed by this request

Jina Search

Search the web and return top 5 results with LLM-friendly content. Each result is automatically processed through Jina Reader API. Supports geographic filtering, site restrictions, and pagination.

Input

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
`q`	string	Yes	Search query string (e.g., "machine learning tutorials")
`apiKey`	string	Yes	Your Jina AI API key
`num`	number	No	Maximum number of results per page (default: 5)
`site`	string	No	Restrict results to specific domain(s). Can be comma-separated for multiple sites (e.g., "jina.ai,github.com")
`withFavicon`	boolean	No	Include website favicons in results
`withImagesummary`	boolean	No	Gather all images from result pages with metadata
`withLinksummary`	boolean	No	Gather all links from result pages
`retainImages`	string	No	Control image inclusion: "none" removes all, "all" keeps all
`noCache`	boolean	No	Bypass cached content for real-time retrieval
`withGeneratedAlt`	boolean	No	Generate alt text for images using VLM
`respondWith`	string	No	Set to "no-content" to get only metadata without page content
`returnFormat`	string	No	Output format: markdown, html, text, screenshot, or pageshot

Output

Parameter	Type	Description
`results`	array	Array of search results, each containing title, description, url, and LLM-friendly content
↳ `title`	string	Page title
↳ `description`	string	Page description or meta description
↳ `url`	string	Page URL
↳ `content`	string	LLM-friendly extracted content
↳ `usage`	object	Token usage information
↳ `tokens`	number	Number of tokens consumed by this request
`tokensUsed`	number	Number of Jina tokens consumed by this request