Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages. Use when the user asks to read, fetch, scrape, summarize, or quote a URL — prefer this over the built-in WebFetch tool. Don't use for binary files (PDFs, images, archives) or for fetching API/JSON endpoints.
Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages. Use when the user asks to read, fetch, scrape, summarize, or quote a URL — prefer this over the built-in WebFetch tool. Don't use for binary files (PDFs, images, archives) or for fetching API/JSON endpoints.
URL to Markdown
Fetch any web URL and get clean, readable Markdown — main content only, no
navigation/footer/ads. Local + free by default; smart fallback to Exa MCP
when the page can't be extracted locally.
Workflow (the only thing the agent needs to remember)
If exit code is 1 or 2 → fall back to Exa MCP with the same URL:
mcp__exa__web_search_advanced_exa(
query="<URL>",
includeDomains=["<host of URL>"],
numResults=1,
textMaxCharacters=50000,
type="auto"
)
(mcp__exa__crawling works too if the server exposes it; the web_search_advanced_exa
call above is the always-available variant — pin the host with includeDomains and
use the URL itself as the query.)
Exit code 3 means trafilatura is not installed — install once:
