---
title: XML Text Extractor
slug: extract-xml-text
url: https://apyverse.com/apyhub/service/extract-xml-text
provider: ApyHub
categories: [Data Extraction, Developer Tools]
tags: [xml, text-extraction, parsing, document-processing, xml-parser]
auth: api_key
---

# XML Text Extractor

Extract readable text from uploaded XML files or XML URLs. Returns plain text in `data`, with optional paragraph preservation.

## Endpoints

| Method | Path | Description | Atoms |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| POST | `/file` | What it does Uploads an XML file and extracts its text content. The response returns the extracted… | 10 |
| POST | `/url` | What it does Extracts text content from an XML file available at a remote URL and returns the extra… | 10 |

## About

## What it does
XML Text Extractor pulls readable text content out of XML files and returns it as a single `data` string. Send either an uploaded `.xml` file to `/file` or a remote XML file URL to `/url`.

Use `preserve_paragraphs` when you want the extracted text to keep paragraph breaks instead of flattening everything into one block. The file endpoint accepts the XML upload plus `preserve_paragraphs` as a string value of `true` or `false`. The URL endpoint accepts `url` and `preserve_paragraphs` as a boolean.

This is useful when you need to turn XML into plain text for downstream parsing, search indexing, review workflows, or content extraction pipelines. If you're building a tool that ingests XML feeds, documentation exports, or structured content from third-party systems, XML Text Extractor gives you the cleaned text without extra markup.

The response is minimal and predictable: you get `data` back with the extracted text content from the document.

## Usage

Authenticate with an ApyHub API key in the `apy-token` header.
Full docs and a live playground: https://apyverse.com/apyhub/service/extract-xml-text