Crawl a website into clean Markdown for your AI
Markdownee crawls web content into Markdown, text or HTML, built on a TypeScript port of the Trafilatura extractor with Crawlee for crawling.
Source
seky on Hacker News · 2026-10-03 · Project link
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-24.
What they did
Markdownee crawls web content into Markdown, text or HTML, built on a TypeScript port of the Trafilatura extractor with Crawlee for crawling.
Result (as claimed)
Free to try with no login, and the output is ready to paste into an AI.
Tools they used
Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.
Set it up
Gather your sources
Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.
Load them into the tool
Open Markdownee and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.
Ask focused questions
Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.
Verify and save
Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Crawl a website into clean Markdown for your AI What the original author did: Markdownee crawls web content into Markdown, text or HTML, built on a TypeScript port of the Trafilatura extractor with Crawlee for crawling. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Free to try with no login, and the output is ready to paste into an AI. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945928 Tools they used: Markdownee Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Crawl a website into clean Markdown for your AI What the original author did: Markdownee crawls web content into Markdown, text or HTML, built on a TypeScript port of the Trafilatura extractor with Crawlee for crawling. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Free to try with no login, and the output is ready to paste into an AI. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945928 Tools they used: Markdownee Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Crawl a website into clean Markdown for your AI What the original author did: Markdownee crawls web content into Markdown, text or HTML, built on a TypeScript port of the Trafilatura extractor with Crawlee for crawling. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Free to try with no login, and the output is ready to paste into an AI. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945928 Tools they used: Markdownee Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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