agentskillexchange Jina Reader URL-to-Markdown Converter and Web Search API
Jina Reader converts any URL to LLM-friendly markdown by prefixing https://r.jina.ai/ to any web address. It also provides a search endpoint at https://s.jina.ai/ that returns web search results in clean markdown format for RAG and agent workflows.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- docker pull ghcr.io/jina-ai/reader:oss
- docker run --rm -p 3000:8081 ghcr.io/jina-ai/reader:oss
- docker run --rm -p 3000:8080 -p 3001:8081 ghcr.io/jina-ai/reader:oss
- docker run --rm -p 3000:8081 \
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
Self-host with Docker
- Docker (optional — only if you want a local MinIO bucket cache)
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
2026-04 — Re-synchronized the open source branch with the SaaS code. The MongoDB-backed storage layer is stripped; the oss branch runs in stateless mode out of the box, with optional MinIO/S3-compatible bucket cac...
2025-03 — Major refactor: Reader is no longer a Firebase application. The SaaS migrated off Firestore + Cloud Functions to a Cloud Run image with MongoDB Atlas, removing the platform-coupled bits and unblocking th...
Using r.jina.ai for single URL fetching
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jina-ai/reader/HEAD/README.md