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extraction_empty

HTTP status: 422 Unprocessable Content · Charged: no

What it means

Section titled “What it means”

POST /v1/url-to-md reached the page, but in clean mode it could not find main content to keep. The page may be empty, may show its content only after a login, or may use a layout the extractor does not recognize. kind is no_content_found.

What to do

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  1. Open the URL in a private browser window. If you need to sign in to see the content, the API cannot see it either.
  2. Call again with "mode": "raw": it returns the whole page as Markdown instead of trying to isolate the main content.
  3. If the page is public and raw still comes back empty, report it with the request_id.

Example response

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The shape below comes from the API source. The values are illustrative, because which public pages trigger this error changes over time.

{
  "error": "extraction_empty",
  "hint": "We couldn't find article content on this page. It might be empty, behind a login, or use a structure we don't recognize yet. Try mode 'raw' to get the whole page instead.",
  "kind": "no_content_found",
  "docs_url": "https://docs.markdownscribe.com/errors/extraction_empty",
  "request_id": "01JEXAMPLE0000000000000000"
}
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