Web To Markdown

Web to Markdown

Converts any website URL into a clean Markdown file via the Jina Reader API (r.jina.ai).

How It Works

Prepend https://r.jina.ai/ to the target URL and fetch with read_url_content. Jina handles JavaScript rendering, ad removal, and Markdown conversion server-side.

Steps

1. Validate input. Ensure the user provided a valid URL (must start with http:// or https://).
2. Fetch Markdown. Call read_url_content with URL https://r.jina.ai/<target URL>.
3. Extract content. The response contains metadata lines (Title:, URL Source:, Published Time:) followed by Markdown Content:. Extract the title from the Title: line and the body from everything after Markdown Content:.
4. Format output. Assemble the final Markdown using the template below.
5. Save file. Write to the output path (see Saving section).

Output Template

# [Title from Jina response]

**Source**: [original URL]
**Date**: [Published Time, or 'Unknown']

---

[Markdown body from Jina response]

Saving the Output

Unless the user specifies a path, save to: ./reports/Articles_YYYY_MM_DD/[slugified_title].md

Derive slugified_title from the page title: lowercase, replace spaces/special chars with underscores, truncate to 80 chars. Confirm the saved path to the user in one sentence.

Error Handling

• If Jina returns an error or empty content, report the failure and suggest the user try content-cleaner skill as fallback (which uses direct read_url_content + manual cleaning).
• If the URL is behind authentication or a paywall, Jina may return partial content. Note this to the user.