convert_to_markdown
Convert a public webpage URL into clean markdown by stripping ads, navigation, and scripts. Get token-efficient content for summarizing, extracting facts, or answering questions.
Instructions
Convert a webpage URL into clean, AI-friendly markdown by performing a live
HTTP GET (15s timeout) and stripping ads, navigation, and scripts, keeping
only the main content (capped at 3MB of source HTML).
Use this when you need to read a webpage's actual content but want to avoid
wasting tokens on HTML tags, ads, navigation menus, and scripts - or when raw
HTML parsing is causing hallucinations in downstream reasoning. Call it before
summarizing, extracting facts from, or answering questions about any arbitrary
public URL. Do NOT use it for: URLs requiring authentication/login (no cookies
or headers are sent); non-HTML resources such as PDFs, images, or other binary
files (returns "unsupported_content"); or JavaScript-rendered single-page apps
(this does a static HTML fetch, not a browser render, so client-side-only
content may come back sparse or empty). No other tool here does markdown
conversion - the sibling get_token_dump_risk is unrelated.
Failure modes returned as structured errors (never raised): "timeout" (15s
exceeded), "http_error" (non-2xx from the target site), "network_error"
(DNS/connection failure), "unsupported_content" (not HTML or over 3MB),
"invalid_url" (missing http(s):// scheme).
Args:
url: The full absolute URL of the webpage to convert, including scheme
(e.g. "https://example.com/article"). Relative paths are not accepted.
Returns:
On success: {"success": true, "url", "title", "markdown", "char_count"}
On failure: {"success": false, "error": {"type", "message"}}
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | Yes |