Web To Markdown

When you need to scrape JavaScript-heavy sites or deal with login walls, this skill wraps the web2md CLI tool, which runs Puppeteer with Readability and Turndown under the hood. It converts web pages to clean Markdown by spinning up a real Chrome instance, so it handles content that won't load without JavaScript. The interactive mode is the standout feature: it pauses the browser so you can manually solve CAPTCHAs or log in before extraction continues. One catch is the explicit trigger requirement, you have to say "use the skill web-to-markdown" or it won't fire, which feels artificial but keeps it from colliding with simpler fetch-based approaches. Good for archiving documentation or research where you need the actual rendered content.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add davila7/claude-code-templates --skill web-to-markdown --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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web-to-markdown

Convert web pages to clean Markdown by driving a locally installed browser (via web2md).

Hard trigger gate (must enforce)

This skill MUST NOT be used unless the user explicitly wrote exactly a phrase like:

use the skill web-to-markdown ...
use a skill web-to-markdown ...

If the user did not explicitly request this skill by name, stop and ask them to re-issue the request including: use the skill web-to-markdown.

What this skill does

Handles JS-rendered pages (Puppeteer → user Chrome).
Works best with Chromium-family browsers (Chrome/Chromium/Brave/Edge) via puppeteer-core.
Extracts main content (Readability).
Converts to Markdown (Turndown) with cleaned links and optional YAML frontmatter.