Web to Markdown

Extract clean article content from any URL and convert it to readable Markdown.

Quick Start

web2md https://example.com/article
web2md https://example.com/article -o article.md
web2md https://example.com/article --summary

Installation

pip install web2md

Common Patterns

Save an article the user shared

web2md <url> -o ~/Documents/reading/<slug>.md

Extract with AI summary (needs Ollama running)

web2md <url> --summary --ai -o article.md

Batch convert a reading list

web2md urls.txt --batch -d output/

How It Works

web2md uses readability-lxml to extract the main article content (stripping ads, nav, sidebars) and markdownify to convert the HTML to clean Markdown. It preserves headings, links, lists, and text formatting while removing clutter.

What It's Good For

• Saving articles for offline reading
• Extracting content for LLM context
• Archiving blog posts and news articles
• Building a personal knowledge base from web content
• Research: batch-convert sources to Markdown

Limits (Free Tier)

• Single URL at a time
• No image download
• No AI summarization (heuristic fallback only)

For batch mode, image download, and AI features: (paid CLI, $19)