Clean Markdown

Any URL to clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG. Strips ads, nav, and boilerplate.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

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Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "clean-markdown-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

clean-markdown-mcp

An MCP server that turns any URL into clean, LLM-ready Markdown — no ads, no nav bars, no cookie banners, no scripts.

Built for RAG pipelines and AI agents, where junk in the input means junk in the output.

Code

Give it:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
Get back: # Markdown

          Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating
          formatted text using a plain-text editor...

Install

Terminal

npm install -g clean-markdown-mcp

Use it with Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "clean-markdown-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, then ask it to "scrape https://example.com to Markdown."

Works the same way in Cursor, Windsurf, or any other MCP client — point it at the clean-markdown-mcp command.

The tool it exposes

scrape_url

Parameter	Type	Description
`url`	string	The page to scrape. Must be `http://` or `https://`.
`includeLinks`	boolean	Keep hyperlinks in the Markdown. Default `true`. Set `false` for cleaner prose.
`renderJs`	boolean	Load the page in a real browser first, for JavaScript-built sites. Default `false`. Requires Playwright — see below.

Returns the page title, source, word count, and the clean Markdown.

How the cleaning works

Fetch — with a 20-second timeout, a 5 MB size cap, and redirects validated at every hop.
Clean — runs Mozilla Readability, the engine behind Firefox Reader View, to isolate the real article and discard navigation, sidebars, ads, and comment sections.
Convert — Turndown renders it as GitHub-flavoured Markdown, preserving headings, lists, tables, and code blocks.

If a page isn't article-shaped, it falls back to a cleaned <body> rather than failing, so you still get usable text.

JavaScript-heavy sites (optional)

Some sites build their content with JavaScript after loading. A plain fetch returns almost nothing for those. To handle them, install Playwright once:

Terminal

npm install playwright && npx playwright install chromium

Then pass renderJs: true. The difference on such a page is dramatic:

Mode	Result
Default	~3 words — just navigation links
`renderJs: true`	~190 words — the full content

Playwright is not a dependency of this package, so a normal install stays small and fast. Without it, renderJs returns a clear message telling you how to enable it.

Security

The scraper refuses private, loopback, and link-local addresses — including cloud metadata endpoints like 169.254.169.254 — and re-validates every redirect hop. This matters because an MCP server runs on your machine, with access to your local network.

Need to scrape at scale?

This package handles one page at a time, locally. For batch scraping, hosted JavaScript rendering, and a pay-per-page API with no infrastructure to run, the same engine is available as a hosted Actor:

https://apify.com/perforated_hummingbird/url-to-markdown

Known limitations

Some sites block automated traffic. That's a site policy, not a bug here.
Non-UTF-8 pages may render with garbled characters.
No robots.txt enforcement — you are responsible for how you use it.

Local development

Terminal

npm install
npm run build
node dist/try.js https://example.com          # quick test
node dist/try.js https://example.com --render # with JS rendering

License

MIT

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

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Frequently Asked Questions about Clean Markdown

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "clean-markdown": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "clean-markdown"] } }

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Clean Markdown

Any URL to clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG. Strips ads, nav, and boilerplate.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Not yet automatically verified

We haven't yet run this listing's install command through our automated sandbox check. This isn't a red flag — we're steadily working through the catalog.

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "clean-markdown-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

clean-markdown-mcp

An MCP server that turns any URL into clean, LLM-ready Markdown — no ads, no nav bars, no cookie banners, no scripts.

Built for RAG pipelines and AI agents, where junk in the input means junk in the output.

Code

Give it:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
Get back: # Markdown

          Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating
          formatted text using a plain-text editor...

Install

Terminal

npm install -g clean-markdown-mcp

Use it with Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "clean-markdown-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, then ask it to "scrape https://example.com to Markdown."

Works the same way in Cursor, Windsurf, or any other MCP client — point it at the clean-markdown-mcp command.

The tool it exposes

scrape_url

Parameter	Type	Description
`url`	string	The page to scrape. Must be `http://` or `https://`.
`includeLinks`	boolean	Keep hyperlinks in the Markdown. Default `true`. Set `false` for cleaner prose.
`renderJs`	boolean	Load the page in a real browser first, for JavaScript-built sites. Default `false`. Requires Playwright — see below.

Returns the page title, source, word count, and the clean Markdown.

How the cleaning works

Fetch — with a 20-second timeout, a 5 MB size cap, and redirects validated at every hop.
Clean — runs Mozilla Readability, the engine behind Firefox Reader View, to isolate the real article and discard navigation, sidebars, ads, and comment sections.
Convert — Turndown renders it as GitHub-flavoured Markdown, preserving headings, lists, tables, and code blocks.

If a page isn't article-shaped, it falls back to a cleaned <body> rather than failing, so you still get usable text.

JavaScript-heavy sites (optional)

Some sites build their content with JavaScript after loading. A plain fetch returns almost nothing for those. To handle them, install Playwright once:

Terminal

npm install playwright && npx playwright install chromium

Then pass renderJs: true. The difference on such a page is dramatic:

Mode	Result
Default	~3 words — just navigation links
`renderJs: true`	~190 words — the full content

Playwright is not a dependency of this package, so a normal install stays small and fast. Without it, renderJs returns a clear message telling you how to enable it.

Security

Need to scrape at scale?

https://apify.com/perforated_hummingbird/url-to-markdown

Known limitations

Some sites block automated traffic. That's a site policy, not a bug here.
Non-UTF-8 pages may render with garbled characters.
No robots.txt enforcement — you are responsible for how you use it.

Local development

Terminal

npm install
npm run build
node dist/try.js https://example.com          # quick test
node dist/try.js https://example.com --render # with JS rendering

License

MIT

Read the full README →View source on GitHub →

Related MCP Servers

View all in Knowledge & Memory View all alternatives

Reviews

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Frequently Asked Questions about Clean Markdown

Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "clean-markdown": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "clean-markdown"] } }

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Technical Specs & Signals

CategoryKnowledge & Memory

35Quality signal: Fair · 35/100How this signal is calculated ▾

Server availabilityNot measured

Not scored for repo-hosted servers — we can't reach the running server, only its GitHub page. Hosted MCP endpoints are health-checked live.

Verified ownership10/20

Documentation & tools15/30

Adoption & activity1/15

Community engagement0/10

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