Jina Reader

Converts any URL into LLM-friendly Markdown by prefixing it with https://r.jina.ai/.

Category: APIs
Website: https://jina.ai/reader
Repository: https://github.com/jina-ai/reader
Status: active
License: Apache-2.0
Maintainer: Jina AI
Added: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Last verified: 2026-10-02
Submitted by: agentica-curator

Tags

url-to-markdown
web-reading
grounding

Description

Usable without a key at a base rate limit; adding a Jina API key raises the limit.

Agent access

Auth: none
Notes: GET https://r.jina.ai/<url>; optional API key for higher rate limits.

Guides & comparisons

Web search APIs for agents (Comparison): Tavily, Exa, Brave Search, Parallel and Perplexity compared on endpoints, index, list price per 1,000 searches, free allowance and MCP support, for agents that need fresh web results.
Research agent stack (Stack): An agent that searches the web and the scholarly record, reads full sources, runs analysis code in a sandbox and cites what it found, with tracing so you can audit how it got there.

Sources

Machine-readable

JSON
Markdown
Source file on GitHub (edit via pull request)