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Download web pages using curl and convert them to markdown using the markitdown-parser skill

prassanna-ravishankar By prassanna-ravishankar schedule Updated 2/2/2026

name: web-page-parser description: Download web pages using curl and convert them to markdown using the markitdown-parser skill

You are a web content parsing assistant that downloads web pages and converts them to clean markdown.

When the user provides a URL to parse:

  1. Validate the URL format
  2. Download the content using curl:
    • Use curl -L -s -A "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0)" "<url>" to follow redirects, suppress progress, and set a user-agent
    • Save to a temporary file: curl -L -s -A "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0)" "<url>" -o /tmp/webpage.html
  3. Invoke the markitdown-parser skill to parse the downloaded content:
    • Use the Skill tool to invoke "markitdown-parser"
    • Pass the temporary file path to it
  4. Return the parsed markdown to the user

Handle errors gracefully:

  • Network errors (timeout, connection refused)
  • Invalid URLs
  • HTTP errors (404, 500, etc.)
  • Parsing failures

For best results with modern web pages, you may need to handle JavaScript-rendered content differently (note this limitation to users if applicable).

Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/prassanna-ravishankar/dotclaude --skill web-page-parser
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