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Scrape web pages to clean Markdown via headless Chromium. Available as a standalone CLI tool and as a Claude Code MCP tool + skill.

Setup

npm install
npx playwright install chromium
npm link

Related MCP server: chromium-mcp

CLI Usage

Single URL

scribe-me -p <project> -u <url> [-c <class>]

Batch (file of URLs)

scribe-me -p <project> -f <file> [-c <class>]

The file is plain text with one URL per line. Lines starting with # are ignored. The scraper runs 3 pages concurrently against a single shared Chromium instance.

Flag

Description

-p, --project

Project name — output is organized under scribe-me/<project>/

-u, --url

Single URL to scrape

-f, --file

Path to a file with one URL per line (use instead of -u)

-c, --class

CSS class of the content container to extract

Output files are written to scribe-me/<project>/ with timestamped filenames:

scribe-me/freewheel/2026-02-27 03:53:23-Getting-Started-with-the-Buzz-API.md

Container Detection

If -c is provided, the scraper targets that class. Otherwise it walks a fallback list of common content selectors (main, article, [role="main"], #content, etc.) and picks the first with meaningful text content, falling back to <body>.

MCP Server

The same scraping logic is exposed as MCP tools for use inside Claude Code:

  • scrape-to-markdown — scrape a single URL

  • scrape-batch-to-markdown — scrape an array of URLs (3 concurrent, shared browser)

Add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scribe-me": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/src/mcp-server.js"]
    }
  }
}

Claude Code Skill

The /scrape skill chains the MCP tool with an AI cleanup pass. It scrapes the page, then has Claude clean up the resulting markdown — removing UI artifacts ("Suggest Edits" links, "Did this page help you?" prompts, empty heading anchors, ToC blocks), fixing malformed headings, and improving code block formatting.

/scrape joshlehman https://www.joshlehman.com -c content

If any arguments are missing, the skill prompts for them interactively.

Skill Installation

Copy the skill prompt to your Claude Code commands directory:

cp commands/scrape.md ~/.claude/commands/scrape.md

Architecture

bin/
  scribe-me.js          # CLI entry point (Commander)
src/
  scraper.js            # Core: Playwright + Turndown
  container-finder.js   # Heuristic content container detection
  file-writer.js        # Directory creation + timestamped file writing
  sanitize.js           # Filename sanitization
  mcp-server.js         # MCP server wrapping scraper
commands/
  scrape.md             # Claude Code /scrape skill prompt

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