mdscraper 0.1.3

A tool to fetch webpages and convert their content to clean Markdown format for LLM processing

MDScraper

A specialized tool for extracting clean, structured content from webpages and converting it to Markdown format. Ideal for preparing web content for LLM embeddings and semantic search applications.

Features

• Clean and normalize web content for optimal LLM processing
• Extract relevant content while filtering out noise, navigation, ads, and irrelevant elements
• Transform HTML content into consistent, well-structured Markdown format
• Process single URLs or batch process multiple URLs from a file
• Intelligent content detection for various webpage layouts
• Options to ignore images and links to reduce token usage in embeddings
• Option to add extra spacing before headings for improved document structure
• Debug mode for troubleshooting extraction issues

Installation

Option 1: Install from PyPI

uv pip install mdscraper

Option 2: Install from source

First, ensure you have UV installed. If not, install it following the official UV installation guide:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Then clone and install the repository:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/mdscraper.git
cd mdscraper
uv pip install .

Usage

Process a single URL

mdscraper --url https://example.com --output example.md

Process multiple URLs from a file

Create a text file with one URL per line, then run:

mdscraper --file urls.txt --outdir output_directory

Using as a library

MDScraper can also be imported and used programmatically:

from mdscraper import fetch_content

# Fetch content as markdown (default)
markdown_content = fetch_content("https://example.com")


# Additional options
content = fetch_content(
    "https://example.com",
    ignore_images=True,  # Remove images
    ignore_links=True,   # Remove links
    debug=True,          # Enable debug output
    extra_heading_space="2"  # Add extra newlines before headings
    prepend_source_link=True # Prepend source link
)

Additional options

• --debug or -d: Enable debug mode for more information
• --no-images: Ignore all images in the content
• --no-links: Ignore all links in the content
• --extra-heading-space LEVELS: Add newlines before specific heading levels for better readability. LEVELS can be:
  • all: Add spacing to all heading levels (h1-h6)
  • 1,2,3: Comma-separated list of specific heading levels to apply spacing to
• --prepend-source-link: Prepend source link in content

Development

Running Tests

To run the test suite, first ensure you have the development dependencies installed:

uv pip install -e ".[dev]"

Then run the tests:

# Run tests without coverage
pytest tests/

# Run tests with coverage report
pytest tests/ --cov

The coverage report will show you which parts of the code are covered by tests and which lines are missing coverage.

License

MIT