Cloudflare

Cloudflare Browser Rendering REST API for crawling websites, extracting content as markdown, taking screenshots, generating PDFs, and scraping structured data. Best for workflows needing web content extraction — converting web pages to markdown, capturing visual snapshots, or extracting structured data from rendered pages. Unlike search APIs (Brave, Exa), Cloudflare renders and extracts from specific URLs rather than searching across the web. 10 endpoints available through Lava’s AI Gateway. See the Cloudflare API docs for full documentation.

Supports both managed (Lava’s API keys) and unmanaged (bring your own credentials) mode.

Endpoints

Extract rendered HTML content from a URL

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/content — $0.00015 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/content', { body: {"url":"https://example.com"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fcontent" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Extract page as markdown

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/markdown — $0.00015 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/markdown', { body: {"url":"https://example.com"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fmarkdown" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Extract structured JSON from a page using a prompt

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/json — $0.00015 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/json', {
  body: {
"url": "https://example.com",
"prompt": "Extract the main heading and first paragraph"
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fjson" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com","prompt":"Extract the main heading and first paragraph"}'

Scrape specific elements from a page

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/scrape — $0.00015 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/scrape', { body: {"url":"https://example.com","elements":[{"selector":"h1"}]} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fscrape" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com","elements":[{"selector":"h1"}]}'

Extract all links from a page

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/links — $0.00015 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/links', { body: {"url":"https://example.com"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Flinks" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Take a DOM snapshot of a page

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/snapshot — $0.00025 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/snapshot', { body: {"url":"https://example.com"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fsnapshot" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Take screenshot of a page

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/screenshot — $0.00025 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/screenshot', { body: {"url":"https://example.com"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fscreenshot" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Generate PDF of a page

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/pdf — $0.00025 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/pdf', { body: {"url":"https://example.com"} });

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fpdf" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com"}'

Multi-page crawl with markdown/text extraction

POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/crawl — $0.001 / request

SDK
cURL

const data = await lava.gateway('https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/crawl', {
  body: {
"url": "https://example.com",
"limit": 3,
"formats": [
  "markdown"
]
},
});

curl -X POST "https://api.lava.so/v1/forward?u=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.cloudflare.com%2Fclient%2Fv4%2Faccounts%2FACCOUNT_ID%2Fbrowser-rendering%2Fcrawl" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LAVA_SECRET_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url":"https://example.com","limit":3,"formats":["markdown"]}'

Check crawl job status

GET https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{id}/browser-rendering/crawl/{id} — $0.00015 / request

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Endpoints

Extract rendered HTML content from a URL

Extract page as markdown

Extract structured JSON from a page using a prompt

Scrape specific elements from a page

Extract all links from a page

Take a DOM snapshot of a page

Take screenshot of a page

Generate PDF of a page

Multi-page crawl with markdown/text extraction

Check crawl job status

Next Steps

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​Endpoints

​Extract rendered HTML content from a URL

​Extract page as markdown

​Extract structured JSON from a page using a prompt

​Scrape specific elements from a page

​Extract all links from a page

​Take a DOM snapshot of a page

​Take screenshot of a page

​Generate PDF of a page

​Multi-page crawl with markdown/text extraction

​Check crawl job status

​Next Steps

All Providers

Forward Proxy

Endpoints

Extract rendered HTML content from a URL

Extract page as markdown

Extract structured JSON from a page using a prompt

Scrape specific elements from a page

Extract all links from a page

Take a DOM snapshot of a page

Take screenshot of a page

Generate PDF of a page

Multi-page crawl with markdown/text extraction

Check crawl job status

Next Steps