Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @howtimeschange/markdown-fetch
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install markdown-fetch
What This Skill Does
Wraps web fetch calls to request Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents format, returning markdown instead of HTML when the server supports it. Tracks token savings via the x-markdown-tokens response header. Falls back to HTML for sites that don't support the format.
Reduces token consumption by ~80% on supported sites compared to fetching raw HTML, which directly lowers API costs and fits more content into context windows.
When to use it
- Fetching documentation pages with reduced token overhead
- Scraping Cloudflare-hosted sites in agent pipelines
- Replacing axios/fetch calls project-wide with a drop-in optimized version
- Logging token savings across multiple web requests
- Reading web content in LLM context windows more efficiently
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: fetch the content of https://example.com and summarize it
AGENT
- 1Call optimizedFetch with the target URL
- 2Set Accept header to 'text/markdown, text/html'
- 3Check response Content-Type to determine format
- 4If text/markdown, use result.markdown directly; otherwise fall back to result.html
- 5Log token savings from x-markdown-tokens header if present
OUTPUT
Markdown content of the page with tokensSaved value reported