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fetch-url-as-markdown
CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-developmentSkill
Fetch a web page (URL) and return clean Markdown via local trafilatura, with Exa MCP as a fallback for JS-rendered or anti-bot pages. Use when the user asks to read, fetch, scrape, summarize, or quote a URL — prefer this over the built-in WebFetch tool. Don't use for binary files (PDFs, images, archives) or for fetching API/JSON endpoints.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 163 stars are split between them (about 16 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 61/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 5f831b43e388, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onefetch-url-as-markdown CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development · Skill | 61 | ★ 163 | ≈91 always | 17d ago |
| fetch-url arabold/docs-mcp-server · Skill Both about fetch and url | 72 | ★ 1.8k | ≈19 always | 16d ago |
| url axoviq-ai/synthadoc · Skill Both about url and fetch | 66 | ★ 1.6k | ≈10 always | 16d ago |
| skill-fetch girofu/skill-fetch · Skill Both about fetch | 52 | ★ 30 | ≈23 always | 6mo ago |
| servo-fetch konippi/servo-fetch · Skill Both about fetch and url | 70 | ★ 161 | ≈88 always | 18d ago |
| fetch-content SerhiiKorniienko/bullshit-detector · Skill Same job: documents & pdfs | 57 | ★ 158 | ≈95 always | 1mo ago |