| name | visit-webpage |
| description | Visit a webpage and extract its content as markdown, or fetch images. Use for reading articles, documentation, or any web page content. Handles both HTML pages (via Jina Reader) and image URLs (downloads and saves locally). |
Visit Webpage
Fetch and extract readable content from web pages as markdown, or download images. Handles JavaScript-rendered content via Jina Reader service.
Setup
Optionally get a Jina API key for higher rate limits:
- Create an account at https://jina.ai/
- Get your API key from the dashboard
- Add to your shell profile (
~/.profile or ~/.zprofile for zsh):
export JINA_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
Without an API key, the service works with rate limits.
Usage
{baseDir}/visit.py <url>
Examples
{baseDir}/visit.py https://example.com/article
{baseDir}/visit.py https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html
{baseDir}/visit.py https://example.com/image.png
Output
For HTML pages: Returns markdown content to stdout.
For images: Downloads the image to a temp file and prints the path. Use the read tool to view it. Supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP formats.
Features
- Extracts main content from HTML pages
- Converts HTML to clean markdown
- Handles JavaScript-rendered pages via Jina Reader
- Auto-detects and downloads images to temp files
- Retries on rate limiting (HTTP 451)
- 5MB max image size limit
When to Use
- Reading articles, blog posts, or documentation
- Extracting content from search results
- Downloading images from URLs (then use
read to view)
- Following links found during web search