Markdownee

Markdownee is a web scraper that crawls websites and converts content into Markdown, HTML, or plain text.

Markdownee is a web scraper that crawls websites and saves their content as Markdown, HTML, or plain text for large language models, retrieval pipelines, and research datasets. It allows users to choose which links to follow, set page and depth limits, select page content amounts, and control tables, links, images, and user comments separately. Boilerplate removal uses Trafilatura Core, an open-source extraction engine based on Trafilatura available in TypeScript and Python, while Crawlee handles crawling using Playwright for browser rendering. Users can run it via the npm CLI, npm library, Python library, source code on GitHub, or the hosted Apify Actor. It also offers an optional image downloading mode and a playground to preview extraction results and generate commands.

Markdownee at a glance

Best for: Software engineer
Runs on: Web, CLI, API, self-hosted, open source
Pricing: Free plan; Apify gives $5 of free usage monthly
Released: October 2026
Category: AI coding tool
Website: markdownee.com

Key features

Crawls web content and converts it to Markdown, text, or HTML
Removes boilerplate using Trafilatura Core extraction engine
Handles crawling with Crawlee and Playwright browser rendering
Controls tables, links, images, and user comments separately
Provides an optional image downloading mode
Offers a playground to preview extraction and generate commands

Use it for

Feeding website content into LLM workflows
Building article archives and research datasets
Setting up retrieval pipelines from web pages
Scraping whole websites or specific pages

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