Jina Reader

Extract clean web content via Jina AI — without exposing your server IP.

Read a URL

{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh "https://example.com/article"

Search the web (top 5 results with full content)

{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --mode search "latest AI news 2025"

Fact-check a statement

{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --mode ground "OpenAI was founded in 2015"

Options

| Flag | Description | Default | |------|-------------|---------| | --mode | read, search, ground | read | | --selector | CSS selector to extract specific region | — | | --wait | CSS selector to wait for before extraction | — | | --remove | CSS selectors to remove (comma-separated) | — | | --proxy | Country code for geo-proxy (br, us, etc.) | — | | --nocache | Force fresh content (skip cache) | off | | --format | markdown, html, text, screenshot | markdown | | --json | Raw JSON output | off |

Examples

# Extract article content
{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh "https://blog.example.com/post"

# Extract specific section via CSS selector
{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --selector "article.main" "https://example.com"

# Remove nav and ads before extraction
{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --remove "nav,footer,.ads" "https://example.com"

# Search with JSON output
{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --mode search --json "AI enterprise trends"

# Read via Brazil proxy
{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --proxy br "https://example.com.br"

# Fact-check a claim
{baseDir}/scripts/reader.sh --mode ground "Tesla is the most valuable car company"

API Key

export JINA_API_KEY="jina_..."

Free tier: 10M tokens (no signup needed). Get key at https://jina.ai/reader/

Pricing

Read: ~$0.005/page (standard) | 3x for ReaderLM-v2
Search: 10K tokens fixed + variable per result
Ground: ~300K tokens/request (~30s latency)

Why Jina Reader?

IP protection — requests route through Jina's infra, not your server
Clean markdown — readability extraction + optional ReaderLM-v2
Dynamic content — headless Chrome renders JavaScript
Structured extraction — JSON schema support for data extraction