web-fetch-to-markdown

name	web-fetch-to-markdown
description	Fetches and normalizes http(s) web pages into clean Markdown for LLM ingestion. Use when a task includes a URL, needs to fetch docs or asks to convert web docs/articles/pages into Markdown for summarizing, quoting, diffing, or saving.

Web Fetch to Markdown

Goal

Fetch a single http(s) URL and output clean Markdown.

Workflow

Fetch a URL and print Markdown to stdout:

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-skills/web-fetch-to-markdown}/scripts/fetchmd" "<url>"

OR write Markdown to a file:

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-skills/web-fetch-to-markdown}/scripts/fetchmd" "<url>" page.md

Useful flags

bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-skills/web-fetch-to-markdown}/scripts/fetchmd" --help
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-skills/web-fetch-to-markdown}/scripts/fetchmd" --timeout-ms 60000 "<url>" > page.md
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-skills/web-fetch-to-markdown}/scripts/fetchmd" --debug "<url>" > page.md
bash "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT:-skills/web-fetch-to-markdown}/scripts/fetchmd" --no-abs-links "<url>" > page.md

Note: links/images are absolute by default; use --no-abs-links to keep them as-is.

Guardrails

• Only accept real http:// or https:// URLs; otherwise stop and request a valid URL.
• If the page is access-controlled (login, paywall, private content), stop and ask the user for an allowed source or exported content.

Troubleshooting

• Slow or flaky fetch: retry with a larger --timeout-ms and use --debug.
• Output looks like placeholders (common for SPAs/JS-rendered pages): ask the user for rendered HTML/text (or a browser capture) and then convert.
• Output is mostly navigation/footer: try an alternate official Markdown source (docs .md, README) or a "printable" version if available.