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name: url-to-markdown description: Fetch URLs and convert web pages to clean Markdown for AI processing or knowledge bases. Use when: (1) Researching web content, (2) Building knowledge bases, (3) Extracting articles, (4) Converting pages for docs.

URL to Markdown Converter

Fetches URLs and converts web pages to clean Markdown.

Quick Start

Python Method (markdownify)

pip install requests beautifulsoup4 markdownify

python3 -c "... fetching and converting URL ..."

CLI Tools (html2text, pandoc)

curl -s URL | html2text
wget -q -O - URL | pandoc -f html -t markdown

Full Extraction Script

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from markdownify import markdownify as md

def url_to_markdown(url, output_file=None):
    # ... fetch, parse, convert logic ...
    pass

Content Extraction Patterns

Extract Article Body

def extract_article(html):
    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    article = soup.find('article') or soup.find('main')
    return md(str(article)) if article else None

Preserve Code Blocks

def preserve_code(html):
    # ... logic to wrap code in ``` ...
    pass

CLI Usage

python url_to_markdown.py URL -o output.md

Error Handling

def safe_fetch(url, retries=3):
    # ... retry logic ...
    pass