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URLToText Make integrationAutomate URLToText with Make.

Need the text behind a link without copying it by hand? The URLToText Make integration gives you 1 action that reads a web address and hands back its text. This guide is for builders who collect links, and it walks you from the connection to a first working scenario.

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What you can automate

What can the URLToText Make integration do for you?

The URLToText Make integration links your URLToText account to Make so a scenario, the automation you build in Make, can send it a web address and receive the page as text. You get one module, Convert a URL to text, which sits in the middle of a flow: another app supplies the link, and the next module uses the text.

A reading pile that sorts itself. Links shared by your team land in one place; each one goes through Convert a URL to text, and the text is passed to the next module so nobody has to open every page.

Research notes without copy and paste. A marketer saves competitor pages while browsing; the scenario turns each address into text and stores it next to the link for later reading.

Articles ready for your newsletter. An editor drops the links she wants to cover into a sheet; each one is converted, so the draft starts from the text, not from a wall of open tabs.

Clean input for another tool. When a later step needs plain words rather than a web page, this module sits in front of it and does the conversion.

Know the limits before you start. URLToText has no trigger, so it never starts a scenario by itself, and it has no Make an API Call module to reach anything beyond this single action. The documentation also warns that its content is AI-generated from the vendor's docs, so check anything critical with URLToText. If you are weighing both platforms, the n8n vs Make comparison lays out the criteria, and the Make pricing page explains how operations are counted. For a guided start, see the Make training.

Connect

How do you connect URLToText to Make?

  1. 01

    Copy your API key

    Log in to your URLToText account, open your dashboard, go to the API section and copy the key shown there. Make will ask for it in a moment, and you need an active URLToText account for it to work.

  2. 02

    Open the connection window

    In your Make scenario, add the URLToText module and click Create a connection. A connection is your URLToText account linked to Make once, then reused by every URLToText module you add later.

  3. 03

    Paste the key and save

    Give the connection a clear label in Connection name if you like, it is optional. Paste the key you copied into the credentials field and confirm. From then on, the module works with that account.

First scenario

Build your first scenario with URLToText

GoalWhen another app hands a link to Make, URLToText converts that address into text for the next module.

  1. 01

    Start a blank scenario

    From the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the + to add the first module. That first module is the app where your links come from, since URLToText has no trigger.

  2. 02

    Add Convert a URL to text

    Click the + on the right of the first module, search for URLToText and pick Convert a URL to text. Select the connection you created, or click Create a connection now.

  3. 03

    Map the link

    Fill the module by mapping the web address that the first module delivers. Each bundle, one item flowing between modules, carries one link, so every link gets its own conversion.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once to execute the scenario a single time. Open the bubble above each module to read the bundles it received and confirm the text came back before you add anything after it.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch on

    Set the schedule on the first module, every 15 minutes by default, then switch the scenario on. On the Free plan the shortest gap between scheduled runs is 15 minutes; paid plans go down to 1 minute.

Modules

What the URLToText module does

URLToText gives you 1 module. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

URLToText1

Convert a URL to text

ActionIn the docs only

As its name says, you give this action a web address and get the page back as text for the next module.

When to use it
a link has just reached your scenario from a form, a message or a sheet, and the following step needs the words rather than the address.
Watch out
each link converted counts as one operation on your Make plan, and the docs list no output fields, so run it once on a real address and read the bundle before mapping anything.
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FAQ

Questions about URLToText and Make

01Is the URLToText Make integration free?
Yes on the Make side: URLToText is a standard app, available from the Free plan. That plan lets you keep 2 scenarios active, run scheduled scenarios no more often than every 15 minutes, and execute for 5 minutes at most per run, with files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans, Core, Pro, Teams and Enterprise, lower the interval to 1 minute and remove the cap on active scenarios. Your URLToText subscription is a separate matter: the URLToText pricing page covers it.
02What do you need to connect URLToText to Make?
You need an active URLToText account and its API key. Open your URLToText dashboard, go to the API section and copy the key. In Make, add the URLToText module, click Create a connection, optionally name it, and paste the key. The connection is then reused by every URLToText module in your scenarios, so you only do this once per account. If the key is refused, check that the account is active and that nothing was cut off when you copied it.
03Does URLToText trigger a Make scenario in real time?
No, because URLToText has no trigger at all. The scenario has to start somewhere else. You can place another app's trigger first, for example an instant trigger that the app calls through a webhook as soon as something happens, or you can rely on Make's own schedule, which runs a new scenario every 15 minutes by default. Convert a URL to text then works on each link that reaches it. On paid plans the scheduled interval can go down to 1 minute.
04What if the URLToText module you need is missing in Make?
It depends on what you need. URLToText offers a single action, Convert a URL to text, and no Make an API Call module, so you cannot reach other parts of the URLToText service from Make. If the conversion is not enough, look for another app in Make that covers the missing step and chain it after URLToText. If you are unsure which route fits your case, the team behind this guide can review the scenario with you and suggest a workable setup.
05Should you use Make or n8n for URLToText?
It depends on the tool you already run. The same app often has an n8n node, so check whether URLToText has one before you choose. In Make, you get the Convert a URL to text action, a visual editor where each module shows the bundles it received, and a Free plan with 2 active scenarios to try it. If your other automations already live in n8n, keeping this step there avoids splitting your flows across two tools. Pick on your existing stack, not on this single module.
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