How to convert website URL page to text TXT in Node.JS

Our goal in today’s tutorial is to use Node.JS to gather text from a URL and return it to us as a TXT file. This is actually a lot easier than you might think. Our secret weapon comes in the form of an API designed for the task.

To start things off, we shall add a reference to our package.json file that will be responsible for installing our API client.

"dependencies": {
    "cloudmersive-convert-api-client": "^2.1.6"
  }

Right after this, we can continue by calling this function:

var CloudmersiveConvertApiClient = require('cloudmersive-convert-api-client');
var defaultClient = CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ApiClient.instance;
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
var Apikey = defaultClient.authentications['Apikey'];
Apikey.apiKey = 'YOUR API KEY';
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
var apiInstance = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.ConvertWebApi();
var input = new CloudmersiveConvertApiClient.UrlToTextRequest(); // UrlToTextRequest | HTML to Text request parameters
var callback = function(error, data, response) {
if (error) {
console.error(error);
} else {
console.log('API called successfully. Returned data: ' + data);
}
};
apiInstance.convertWebUrlToTxt(input, callback);

Now we can input any URL we wish into convertWebUrlToTxt and we will be given back our text. Easy.