Show HN: Markdownee – crawls websites into Markdown; own TS port of Trafilatura

Category: devtools

Tags: web-scraping, markdown, boilerplate-removal, llm-data, typescript

Score: 6.0/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Markdownee is a web crawler that converts websites into Markdown, HTML, or plain text for LLM and retrieval pipelines, using a TypeScript port of the Trafilatura boilerplate-removal engine. It packages the crawler as a CLI, Node.js library, Python library, and hosted Apify Actor, with Crawlee/Playwright handling crawling and rendering.

Target audience: AI/ML engineers, data engineers, and backend developers building retrieval pipelines or datasets

Repository: https://www.markdownee.com/ · TypeScript · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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