xtract.bot

POST /api/docx-to-html2 quota units per call · cache hits free

Convert a Microsoft Word .docx to semantic HTML. Headings, lists, tables, bold / italic, and embedded images are preserved; complex Word features are dropped.

Reads a .docx Word document and returns it as clean HTML. Headings, paragraphs, lists (ordered + unordered), tables, bold, italic, underline, and links are preserved. Embedded images are inlined as data URIs. Word-specific concepts that do not have a clean HTML equivalent (track changes, comments, complex page-layout, footnotes, math equations) are dropped silently. The output is plain semantic HTML you can paste into a CMS or feed to a Markdown converter.

Inputs

NameTypeDefaultDescription
docx*fileInput.docx bytes.
inlineImagesbooleanfalseWhen true, embed images inline as data: URLs. When false, images are dropped.

Response

Modes: json, binary. Cache: yes (24h TTL).

Every response carries x-cache (HIT / MISS / BYPASS), x-cache-signature (stable across identical inputs), and the rate-limit headers listed below.

Quota & limits

Cost per call2 units against the 10,000-unit monthly quota. Cache hits are free — only cache misses decrement.
Burst limit200 requests per rolling minute, shared across all tools.
Max request size25 MiB (base64 inflates file payloads ~33% — the limit applies to the decoded bytes).
Max response size50 MiB
Timeout30s wall clock.
Rate-limit headersX-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Burst-Limit on every response; X-Quota-Warning once 80% of the monthly quota is spent; Retry-After on 429s.

Errors

Errors are JSON with an error string; schema failures add a details object (Zod's flattened field errors).

StatusWhenBody
400Input fails the tool's schema (wrong type, missing required field, malformed base64) or the file bytes can't be parsed as the expected format.{ "error": "invalid inputs", "details": { "fieldErrors": { … } } }
401Missing or invalid X-Api-Key / X-Account-Id headers (or no session when called from the browser).{ "error": "unauthorized" }
404Unknown tool id, or calling /api/* on the website hostname instead of api.xtract.bot.{ "error": "not found" }
413Request body over the tool's max request size, or an image header declaring more megapixels than the tool's pixel budget.{ "error": "…exceeds maxRequestBytes…" }
415Content-Type isn't application/json on the json-body transport.{ "error": "unsupported content-type; expected application/json" }
429Monthly quota or the 200/min burst limit exhausted. Check Retry-After and the X-RateLimit-* headers.{ "error": "monthly quota exceeded", "monthRemaining": 0, … }
5xxConversion engine failure. Safe to retry; if it persists, the input is hitting a bug — please report it.{ "error": "…" }

Code samples

Built from the sample example.

# Download or substitute the example input:
#   curl -O https://xtract.bot/examples/docx-fixtures/sample.docx
DOCX=$(base64 -w0 < sample.docx)

curl -X POST https://api.xtract.bot/api/docx-to-html \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-Account-Id: $XTRACT_ACCOUNT_ID" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: $XTRACT_API_KEY" \
  -d '{
  "inlineImages": false,
  "docx": "'"$DOCX"'"
}'