fetch-url-as-markdown SKILL.md skillA
fetch-url-as-markdown from codealive-ai/ai-driven-development is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add codealive-ai/ai-driven-development/fetch-url-as-markdown@git:20260504.4d670efPins git:20260504.4d670ef in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- codealive-ai/ai-driven-development
- Path
skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260504.4d670ef, committed May 4, 2026
- Size
- 3,656 bytes
- Repository stars
- 163
- License
- MIT
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.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# 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)
1. **Try trafilatura first**:
```bash
python3 ~/.claude/skills/fetch-url-as-markdown/scripts/fetch_url.py "<URL>"
```
2. **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.)
3. Exit code `3` means trafilatura is not installed — install once:
```bash
python3 -m pip install --break-system-packages trafilatura
```
## Exit codes (what they mean for the fallback decision)
| Code | Meaning | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | Markdown printed to stdout | done |
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add codealive-ai/ai-driven-development/fetch-url-as-markdown@sha256:075bf66f381badc9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260504.4d670ef, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hg4mxd23otbbd34k)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 4, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3656 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
codealive-ai/ai-driven-development · 163 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hg4mxd23otbbd34k GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=codealive-ai/ai-driven-development/fetch-url-as-markdown GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/075bf66f381badc97826f7e9f34e6d9bf84ab1fc78994a01044d21d382d77916
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
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