Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @thendcn/mdnew
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install mdnew
What This Skill Does
Fetches clean, token-efficient Markdown from any URL using the markdown.new three-tier conversion pipeline. Strips boilerplate, ads, and navigation menus, leaving only core content. Handles JS-heavy pages via Cloudflare Browser Rendering as a fallback.
Reduces page size by up to 80% compared to raw HTML, making it practical for agents with tight context windows that would otherwise struggle with full-page content.
When to use it
- Extracting article text for LLM analysis
- Scraping docs pages when web_fetch returns noisy HTML
- Reading JS-rendered pages without a full browser setup
- Reducing token usage when ingesting long web pages
- Feeding clean web content into agent context windows
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: Summarize the content at https://docs.example.com/guide
AGENT
- 1Run python3 scripts/mdnew.py https://docs.example.com/guide
- 2Pipeline attempts Header Negotiation first, falls back to Workers AI, then Cloudflare Browser Rendering
- 3Receive clean Markdown with x-markdown-tokens count in the response
- 4Pass Markdown to LLM for summarization
OUTPUT
Clean Markdown summary of the documentation page, using a fraction of the tokens raw HTML would require