FetchMD

Fetch any web page as clean Markdown.

Features

• Fetches a URL and returns Markdown (sync, minimal API).
• Prefers Markdown/plain responses via Accept, falls back to HTML conversion.
• Extracts main content with readability by default.
• Absolutizes links and images for fetched URLs.
• Supports piping raw HTML via stdin.

Install

Requires Python >= 3.10.

uv tool install fetchmd

CLI

# Run without installing
uv run fetchmd https://example.com

# Install once, then:
fetchmd https://example.com

# Read raw HTML from stdin
curl https://example.com | fetchmd -

# Skip readability, convert full HTML
fetchmd --raw https://example.com

Python API

from fetchmd import fetchmd

md = fetchmd("https://example.com")

Behavior

• text/markdown and text/plain are returned as-is.
• HTML is cleaned with readability unless --raw is used.
• Relative href and src are converted to absolute URLs for fetched pages.
• When reading from stdin (-), there is no base URL, so links remain unchanged.

Testing

Run tests on a single Python version:

uv run --python 3.12 --with pytest -- pytest

Run the supported-version matrix:

./scripts/test-matrix.sh

Override versions (space-separated):

PY_VERSIONS="3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14" ./scripts/test-matrix.sh