Show HN: Web2MD – turn any URL into clean Markdown for AI agents
Web2MD MCP Server Convert any URL to clean Markdown — directly from your AI agent. An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that converts public webpages to clean, readable Markdown. Strips ads, navigation, and boilerplate — returns LLM-ready text perfect for RAG, research, and content extraction.
- ▪Web2MD MCP Server Convert any URL to clean Markdown — directly from your AI agent.
- ▪An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that converts public webpages to clean, readable Markdown.
- ▪Strips ads, navigation, and boilerplate — returns LLM-ready text perfect for RAG, research, and content extraction.
Hacker News (AI / LLM) files mainly under ai. We currently carry 7,432 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/astra-intelligence/web2md-mcp |
| Publication time | Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:36:35 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-03T13:43:12.715Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-03T13:43:12.715Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | kAWiDo8LSsNW · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Web2MD MCP Server Convert any URL to clean Markdown — directly from your AI agent. An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that converts public webpages to clean, readable Markdown. Strips ads, navigation, and boilerplate — returns LLM-ready text perfect for RAG, research, and content extraction. Works with Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue.dev, Windsurf, and any MCP-compatible client. Quick Start From source (GitHub) git clone https://github.com/astra-intelligence/web2md-mcp.git cd web2md-mcp pip install . # or: uv sync Using pip (once published) ⏳ Pending PyPI publication. Until then, use the source install above.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at GitHub.