markdown-new

name	markdown-new
description	Clean Markdown extraction from any URL via markdown.new. Reduces token usage by ~80% vs raw HTML. Use when reading web pages, articles, documentation.
user-invocable	false

markdown.new -- Clean Web Content

Converts any webpage to clean Markdown. Reduces tokens by ~80% compared to raw HTML.

How to Use

Prepend https://markdown.new/ to any URL:

curl -sL "https://markdown.new/https://example.com/article"

When to Use

• Reading web pages, articles, blog posts
• Extracting documentation content
• Processing PDFs (built-in OCR)
• Getting clean text from any URL

When NOT to Use

• JavaScript-heavy SPAs (React/Vue apps)
• Login-protected content
• Real-time data (stock prices, live feeds)
• Pages that require interaction

Features

Feature	Supported
Web pages	Yes
PDFs	Yes (OCR)
Images	Yes (description)
Audio	Yes (transcription)

Integration Pattern

Instead of:

# Raw HTML -- wastes tokens
curl -sL "https://example.com/docs/guide"

Use:

# Clean Markdown -- 80% fewer tokens
curl -sL "https://markdown.new/https://example.com/docs/guide"

Setup

No signup required. Free service. No API key needed.

Fallback

If markdown.new is down, alternatives:

• Jina AI Reader -- prepend https://r.jina.ai/
• Trafilatura -- self-hosted Python library