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 POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/content — $0.00015 / requestconst 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"}'
POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/markdown — $0.00015 / requestconst 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"}'
POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/json — $0.00015 / requestconst 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 / requestconst 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"}]}'
POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/links — $0.00015 / requestconst 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 / requestconst 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 / requestconst 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 / requestconst 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"}'
POST https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/ACCOUNT_ID/browser-rendering/crawl — $0.001 / requestconst 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 / requestNext Steps
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