parallel-web-extract

URL Extraction

Extract content from: $ARGUMENTS

Command

Choose a short, descriptive filename based on the URL or content (e.g., vespa-docs, react-hooks-api). Use lowercase with hyphens, no spaces. Substitute it into the command inline — $FILENAME is a placeholder, not a shell variable.

parallel-cli extract "$ARGUMENTS" --json -o "/tmp/$FILENAME.json"

Concrete example:

parallel-cli extract "https://docs.parallel.ai" --json -o "/tmp/parallel-docs.json"

Note: -o always saves JSON. The extension must be .json.

Options if needed:

• --objective "focus area" to focus extraction on a specific goal (also silences the "neither objective nor search_queries" warning that V1 emits when neither is set)
• -q "keyword" (repeatable) to prioritize keywords in excerpts
• --full-content to include the complete page body (for long articles, PDFs, or when excerpts may not capture what you need)
• --full-content-max-chars N to cap full-content size per result
• --no-excerpts to strip excerpts when you only want full content

Handling failed extractions

If the response has an errors field, an empty results array, or a 404/timeout for the URL, do NOT fabricate content. Tell the user the extraction failed, surface the upstream status, and suggest:

• Verifying the URL (the page may have moved)
• Retrying with --full-content if excerpts came back empty but the page exists
• Using parallel-cli search to locate the current URL if the page was renamed

Response format

Return content as:

Page Title

Then the extracted content verbatim, with these rules:

• Keep content verbatim - do not paraphrase or summarize
• Parse lists exhaustively - extract EVERY numbered/bulleted item
• Strip only obvious noise: nav menus, footers, ads
• Preserve all facts, names, numbers, dates, quotes

After the response, mention the output file path (/tmp/$FILENAME.json) so the user knows it's available for follow-up questions.

If the parallel-cli binary is not installed

If the shell reports command not found: parallel-cli (i.e. the binary itself is missing — distinct from a No such command error from a stale CLI, which the in-body guidance above covers), stop immediately. Do NOT search the web yourself, do NOT use any built-in search tools, and do NOT try to answer the query from your own knowledge. Instead, tell the user:

1. parallel-cli is not installed
2. Run /parallel-setup to install it
3. Then retry their request