Web to Markdown#

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

Quick Start#

bash

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

Installation#

bash

pip install web2md

Common Patterns#

Save an article the user shared#

bash

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

Extract with AI summary (needs Ollama running)#

bash

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

Batch convert a reading list#

bash

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: https://web2md.dev (paid CLI, $19)