Extract Help Center Article from Website

Support teams use this recipe to ingest public help center pages into structured support and knowledge-base workflows. Extract article titles, summaries, steps, related links, and update dates.

APIs Used

Website Extraction (1 credit per website extraction)

Prerequisites

You need an Iteration Layer API key. Get one at platform.iterationlayer.com during the 7-day trial.

For full integration guidance (SDKs, auth, MCP, error handling), see the Iteration Layer Integration Guide.

Implementation

curl -X POST https://api.iterationlayer.com/website-extraction/v1/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "file": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://example.com/help/reset-password"
    },
    "schema": {
        "fields": [
            {
                "name": "article_title",
                "type": "TEXT",
                "description": "Help article title"
            },
            {
                "name": "summary",
                "type": "TEXTAREA",
                "description": "Short support article summary"
            },
            {
                "name": "steps",
                "type": "ARRAY",
                "description": "Step-by-step instructions",
                "fields": [
                    {
                        "name": "step",
                        "type": "TEXT",
                        "description": "One instruction step"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "name": "related_links",
                "type": "ARRAY",
                "description": "Related article links",
                "fields": [
                    {
                        "name": "link",
                        "type": "TEXT",
                        "description": "Related link label or URL"
                    }
                ]
            },
            {
                "name": "last_updated",
                "type": "DATE",
                "description": "Last updated date"
            }
        ]
    }
}'

import { IterationLayer } from "iterationlayer";
const client = new IterationLayer({ apiKey: "YOUR_API_KEY" });

const result = await client.extractWebsite({
  file: {
    type: "url",
    url: "https://example.com/help/reset-password",
  },
  schema: {
    "fields": [
      {
        "name": "article_title",
        "type": "TEXT",
        "description": "Help article title"
      },
      {
        "name": "summary",
        "type": "TEXTAREA",
        "description": "Short support article summary"
      },
      {
        "name": "steps",
        "type": "ARRAY",
        "description": "Step-by-step instructions",
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "step",
            "type": "TEXT",
            "description": "One instruction step"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "related_links",
        "type": "ARRAY",
        "description": "Related article links",
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "link",
            "type": "TEXT",
            "description": "Related link label or URL"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "name": "last_updated",
        "type": "DATE",
        "description": "Last updated date"
      }
    ]
  },
});

from iterationlayer import IterationLayer
client = IterationLayer(api_key="YOUR_API_KEY")

result = client.extract_website(
    file={
        "type": "url",
        "url": "https://example.com/help/reset-password",
    },
    schema={
      "fields": [
        {
          "name": "article_title",
          "type": "TEXT",
          "description": "Help article title"
        },
        {
          "name": "summary",
          "type": "TEXTAREA",
          "description": "Short support article summary"
        },
        {
          "name": "steps",
          "type": "ARRAY",
          "description": "Step-by-step instructions",
          "fields": [
            {
              "name": "step",
              "type": "TEXT",
              "description": "One instruction step"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "related_links",
          "type": "ARRAY",
          "description": "Related article links",
          "fields": [
            {
              "name": "link",
              "type": "TEXT",
              "description": "Related link label or URL"
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "name": "last_updated",
          "type": "DATE",
          "description": "Last updated date"
        }
      ]
    },
)

package main

import il "github.com/iterationlayer/sdk-go"

func main() {
	client := il.NewClient("YOUR_API_KEY")

	result, err := client.ExtractWebsite(il.ExtractWebsiteRequest{
		File: il.UrlFileInput{
			Type: "url",
			Url: "https://example.com/help/reset-password",
		},
		Schema: il.ExtractionSchema{
			Fields: []any{
				il.TextFieldConfig{
					Name: "article_title",
					Type: "TEXT",
					Description: "Help article title",
				},
				il.TextareaFieldConfig{
					Name: "summary",
					Type: "TEXTAREA",
					Description: "Short support article summary",
				},
				il.ArrayFieldConfig{
					Name: "steps",
					Type: "ARRAY",
					Description: "Step-by-step instructions",
					Fields: []any{
						il.TextFieldConfig{
							Name: "step",
							Type: "TEXT",
							Description: "One instruction step",
						},
					},
				},
				il.ArrayFieldConfig{
					Name: "related_links",
					Type: "ARRAY",
					Description: "Related article links",
					Fields: []any{
						il.TextFieldConfig{
							Name: "link",
							Type: "TEXT",
							Description: "Related link label or URL",
						},
					},
				},
				il.DateFieldConfig{
					Name: "last_updated",
					Type: "DATE",
					Description: "Last updated date",
				},
			},
		},
	})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	_ = result
}

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Extract structured data from the public website page at [website URL]. Use the extract_website tool with this schema:

- article_title (TEXT): Help article title
- summary (TEXTAREA): Short support article summary
- steps (ARRAY): Step-by-step instructions. Each item has step (TEXT)
- related_links (ARRAY): Related article links. Each item has link (TEXT)
- last_updated (DATE): Last updated date

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "article_title": {
      "type": "TEXT",
      "value": "Reset your password",
      "confidence": 0.97,
      "citations": [
        "Reset your password"
      ],
      "source": "website.html"
    },
    "steps": {
      "type": "ARRAY",
      "value": [
        "Open Account Settings",
        "Choose Security",
        "Select Reset Password"
      ],
      "confidence": 0.9,
      "citations": [
        "Open Account Settings > Security"
      ],
      "source": "website.html"
    },
    "last_updated": {
      "type": "DATE",
      "value": "2026-03-30",
      "confidence": 0.87,
      "citations": [
        "Updated March 30, 2026"
      ],
      "source": "website.html"
    }
  }
}

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