Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @alaminrifat/file-to-markdown
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install file-to-markdown
What This Skill Does
Converts files and URLs into Markdown using the markdown.new API, built on Cloudflare Workers AI. Supports 20+ formats including PDFs, Office documents, spreadsheets, images, and HTML pages. No authentication required for up to 500 requests per day per IP.
Handles 20+ file formats through a single HTTP call with no auth setup, replacing multiple local parsers or library dependencies.
When to use it
- Convert a PDF report into Markdown before passing it to an LLM
- Extract spreadsheet rows for a RAG ingestion pipeline
- Turn a public webpage into structured text for a knowledge base
- Process uploaded user documents inside a chatbot workflow
- Get AI-generated text descriptions from product or diagram images
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: Extract the contents of this PDF as Markdown
AGENT
- 1Receive the public file URL or local file path from the user
- 2Send a GET request to https://markdown.new/<file-url> for remote files, or POST multipart form data to /convert for local files
- 3Check the success field in the response
- 4Extract the content field containing the Markdown text
OUTPUT
Clean Markdown text ready for LLM ingestion or storage