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Re:2markdown – Transform Websites into Markdown on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @06:39PM (#40230518)
If you’re looking for an open core version of this check out firecrawl.dev

Show HN: API to turn entire websites into Markdown

https://www.firecrawl.dev/

While building mendable - we found that feeding LLMs well-structured markdown improved accuracy. We also found it surprisingly hard.We found some great tools online, but none reliably handled the entire process. We wanted an API that took a URL, crawled the pages in the URL, and gave us an easy-to-use, up-to-date markdown we could feed into our index.So, we released an open-source repo and an...

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Very cool. We posted about a similar tool we built yesterday

https://www.firecrawl.dev/

It also crawls (although you can scrape single pages as well)

Re:Turn entire websites into LLM-ready data on Saturday April 13, 2024 @08:27PM (#40027557)
It wasn't in our initial version (we didn't plan on launching today), but we are pushing an update to do so now.
Re:Turn entire websites into LLM-ready data on Saturday April 13, 2024 @07:55PM (#40027352)
It crawls webpages (finds subdirectories), handles JS blocking with fallbacks to headless browsers, and does this all concurrently.

If only that script worked for every website. But, alas, it does not.

Re:Turn entire websites into LLM-ready data on Saturday April 13, 2024 @07:44PM (#40027261)
* Creator here - Thats the goal!