Summarize

Name: webclaw
Author: webclaw

Generate a concise summary of any web page. The page is scraped, cleaned, and passed to an LLM which produces a summary of the specified length.

POST/v1/summarize

Generate an LLM-powered summary of a web page.

Request body

json

{
  "url": "https://example.com/blog/long-article",
  "max_sentences": 3
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
`url`	`string`	Yes	URL of the page to summarize.
`max_sentences`	`number`	No	Maximum number of sentences in the summary. Default: 3.

Response

json

{
  "summary": "The article discusses the latest advances in web extraction technology, focusing on HTTP-based approaches that avoid headless browsers. Key findings show a 20x speed improvement over Chrome-based solutions. The author recommends Rust-based extractors for production workloads."
}

Note

Like the extract endpoint, summarize uses the LLM provider chain: Ollama (local) first, then OpenAI, then Anthropic. At least one must be configured.

Example

curl

curl -X POST https://api.webclaw.io/v1/summarize \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer wc_your_api_key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)",
    "max_sentences": 3
  }'