WSWS Markdown
A tool to convert articles from the World Socialist Web Site to Markdown format.
Why not a generic URL-to-Markdown tool?
Generic converters guess at the main content block, so they often leak WSWS
site chrome (share icons, newsletter widgets, "Read more" blocks) into the
output or strip real content by mistake. This tool targets WSWS's actual
markup (itemprop="articleBody", /en/authors/ links, <time datetime>) for
exact extraction and frontmatter, at the cost of being tied to WSWS's current
template.
Install
pip install wsws-md
Usage
wswsmd "https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/03/coeq-j03.html"
Prints the article as Markdown (with YAML frontmatter containing title, author,
date, description and source URL) to stdout. Use -o FILE / --output FILE
to write to a file instead:
wswsmd "https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/03/coeq-j03.html" -o article.md
Use --no-frontmatter to omit the YAML header and print just the title,
byline and body:
wswsmd "https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/07/03/coeq-j03.html" --no-frontmatter
Claude Skill
This repo also ships a Claude Skill
that wraps the CLI so Claude can convert WSWS articles to Markdown directly. Download the
packaged wsws-md-skill-*.zip from the Releases
page and upload it as a Skill in Claude.ai.
Development
pip install -e ".[test]"
pytest
Pull request titles must follow Conventional Commits — see CONTRIBUTING.md. Releases are automated with release-please.
1 maintainer
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