Danubia
EU-hosted content extraction API that turns any webpage into clean markdown or plain text, built for developers feeding web content into RAG pipelines and AI applications.
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Description
Anyone building an AI tool that needs to "read" web pages — for a chatbot, a research assistant, a content aggregator — runs into the same annoying problem: real webpages are full of ads, navigation menus, and JavaScript, not the clean text you actually want to feed to a model. Danubia is an API that does that cleanup for you: send it a URL, get back clean markdown or plain text, with the extra promise that your data stays on EU servers under GDPR rules rather than passing through US infrastructure.
Danubia extracts structured content and metadata (title, description, language) from web pages, supports JavaScript-rendered pages, and returns results in markdown, HTML, or plain text. It runs on shared crawling infrastructure with per-domain concurrency limits and respects robots.txt, and uses an integrated caching layer so repeated requests for the same page cost less than a fresh fetch — failed requests aren't charged at all. Pricing is credit-based (1 credit per fetch), with 500 free credits during the current public beta and batch processing available for bulk jobs. The EU-hosting and GDPR-compliance framing, plus an explicit promise that extracted content isn't used for model training, is aimed squarely at European teams and any team with data-residency requirements.
💬 Our review
The short version: Danubia does a job several US-based tools already do well, but its EU hosting, GDPR framing, and explicit no-training-on-your-data promise are real, concrete reasons for a European team (or anyone with data-residency requirements) to pick it specifically.
Firecrawl, Jina AI Reader, and Diffbot are the established content-extraction-for-AI players, all US-hosted or US-headquartered, all offering broadly similar markdown/JSON extraction from URLs. Danubia's differentiation isn't extraction quality (it claims to be "best-in-class" but that's a subjective, unverified claim from a beta product) — it's jurisdiction: EU infrastructure and GDPR compliance are concrete, checkable facts that matter specifically for European companies, healthcare/finance data, or anyone who's been told by legal/compliance that US-hosted data processing isn't an option. The honest caveat: it's in public beta with unspecified final pricing beyond "credit-based," and as a newer, smaller operation it hasn't had years to prove reliability at the scale Firecrawl or Diffbot have. Worth using specifically if EU data residency is a real requirement for your project; if it isn't, Firecrawl or Jina AI Reader have longer track records and clearer, established pricing.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
500 crédits gratuits en bêta publique, puis facturation au crédit (1 crédit = 1 fetch), tarif exact non communiqué
Pros
Hébergement UE et conformité RGPD explicite
Promesse que le contenu extrait n'est pas utilisé pour entraîner des modèles
Cache intégré, requêtes échouées non facturées
Support du rendu JavaScript
Cons
Produit en bêta publique, tarification finale pas encore communiquée
Moins de recul que Firecrawl/Diffbot en termes de fiabilité à grande échelle
Affirmation de qualité "best-in-class" non vérifiable indépendamment