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Stop Sending Raw HTML to LLMs

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A scraper gives you a page as one HTML string: markup, inline styles, scripts, and somewhere inside it the text you wanted. Many pipelines send that string directly to an LLM. That works, so the cost rarely gets measured. But on the 10 pages I measured, the HTML used 3 to 24 times more tokens than…

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  1. 2026-09-16 12:31 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Sending Raw HTML to LLMs

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