| name | web-markdown-navigator |
| description | Fetch webpages and return clean markdown instead of raw HTML. Use for URL reading, extraction, and summarization tasks where the user wants markdown output; use browser fallback for JS-heavy/SPA pages when extraction is thin. |
Web Markdown Navigator
Use this skill for deterministic URL → markdown extraction.
Quick flow
- Run script:
cd /Users/pedrogonzalez/clawd/skills/web-markdown-navigator/scripts
node fetch-markdown.mjs "<url>" --max-chars 50000
- If exit code
0, return markdown output.
- If exit code
3 or 4, or output is thin/boilerplate, use browser tool fallback to capture rendered content and return markdown summary.
Script
node scripts/fetch-markdown.mjs <url> [--max-chars N] [--timeout-ms N] [--json]
Behavior:
- Layer 1: Fetch HTML + Mozilla Readability + Turndown markdown conversion.
- Layer 2: Fallback plain-text markdown if extraction is too thin.
- URL safety checks block localhost/private literal IPv4 hosts.
Output requirements
- Return markdown only (no raw HTML dump).
- Preserve source URL in response.
- If truncated, include truncation note.
- If fallback was needed, mention method used (
readability or fallback-text).
Error handling
1 bad args
2 invalid/blocked URL
3 network/fetch/content-type failure
4 extraction failure/thin output
For extended notes and troubleshooting, read:
/Users/pedrogonzalez/clawd/skills/web-markdown-navigator/references/usage.md