Jina Reader et Search
Tool : A precise action the AI can call · requires jina-api
Converts a URL into clean Markdown for a language model.
One URL prefix and you're done; free to get started.
Security reflects where data goes, requested permissions and incidents on record at the verification date. It is not a guarantee of zero risk: check the deployment mode and the connections you enable.
What it does, concretely
Feeding web content into a language model is often cumbersome: raw HTML is cluttered with tags, scripts, and noise that degrade response quality. Jina Reader solves this by extracting the main content from a URL and converting it into clean, LLM-friendly text for RAG or agent systems.
In practice, you simply prepend any URL with r.jina.ai/ to get a cleaned Markdown version of the page. For web search, the prefix s.jina.ai/?q= returns the top five results with their content, also in structured text. Images are automatically captioned by a vision model, and PDFs are natively supported.
Jina Reader targets developers building RAG pipelines, web agents, or document analysis tools. It is designed as API infrastructure, not a consumer search engine: the user chooses which URLs to process and is responsible for how the output is used.
It is not suited for those looking for a visual interface or a no-code turnkey tool. Users without an API key face strict rate limits, and some advanced features consume significantly more tokens.
What it offers
- ·URL-to-clean-Markdown conversion via the simple r.jina.ai/ prefix.
- ·Web search returning the top five results in structured text via s.jina.ai/?q=.
- ·Native PDF reading, including documents with many images.
- ·Automatic image captioning using a built-in vision language model.
- ·CSS selector targeting to extract only a specific part of a page.
- ·High-quality HTML-to-Markdown conversion via ReaderLM-v2 for complex pages (costs 3x more tokens).
- ·MCP server available at mcp.jina.ai to integrate the API into LLM agents.
- ·EU data residency option for sensitive requests (experimental).
In practice
- Price
- Freemium
- Commercial use
- Commercial use: yes
- Available on
- api
- Host
- jina-api
- FR interface
- No
Security and data
- Rating
- Security: one caveat, see the card
- Capabilities
- readswritesexecutesnetwork
- Your data
- Data with third parties
- Maintenance
- Active
Links and repository checked on 25 October 2026 · added on 1 April 2024
How to install Jina Reader et Search
curl "https://r.jina.ai/https://www.example.com"