Clean Markdown

Name: Clean Markdown
Author: damonwill78-a11y

by damonwill78-a11yversion 1.1.3i★ –iRuns on your computer

Registry nameio.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown

Install

Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Any URL to clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG. Strips ads, nav, and boilerplate.

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What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs on your computer
Transport: stdio
Category: Docs, sheets & office work

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on your computer with your user’s permissions (files, network, apps).
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

npmNode.js installed (for the npx command)

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config, and paste this into claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "clean-markdown-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add clean-markdown -- npx -y clean-markdown-mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "clean-markdown-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "clean-markdown": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "clean-markdown-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

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What it can do

Runs on your computer; the tool list appears in your AI app after you install it.

Basic checksi

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Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 3545 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is Clean Markdown safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs on your computer. Your AI app starts it when needed, and data does not pass through the maker’s servers (unless it calls an online service itself).

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.1.3) reached the registry 4 months ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. You also need Node.js on your computer.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

Open the README

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clean-markdown-mcp

An MCP server that turns any URL into clean, LLM-ready Markdown — no ads, no nav bars, no cookie banners, no scripts.

Built for RAG pipelines and AI agents, where junk in the input means junk in the output.

Give it:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

Get back: # Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor...

Install

npm install -g clean-markdown-mcp

Use it with Claude Desktop

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

"mcpServers": { "clean-markdown": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "clean-markdown-mcp"] } } }

Restart Claude Desktop, then ask it to *"scrape https://example.com to Markdown."*

Works the same way in Cursor, Windsurf, or any other MCP client — point it at the clean-markdown-mcp command.

The tool it exposes

`scrape_url`

Parameter	Type	Description
`url`	string	The page to scrape. Must be `http://` or `https://`.
`includeLinks`	boolean	Keep hyperlinks in the Markdown. Default `true`. Set `false` for cleaner prose.
`renderJs`	boolean	Load the page in a real browser first, for JavaScript-built sites. Default `false`. Requires Playwright — see below.

Returns the page title, source, word count, and the clean Markdown.

How the cleaning works

Fetch — with a 20-second timeout, a 5 MB size cap, and redirects validated at every hop.
Clean — runs Mozilla Readability, the engine behind Firefox Reader View, to isolate the real article and discard navigation, sidebars, ads, and comment sections.
Convert — Turndown renders it as GitHub-flavoured Markdown, preserving headings, lists, tables, and code blocks.

If a page isn't article-shaped, it falls back to a cleaned rather than failing, so you still get usable text.

JavaScript-heavy sites (optional)

Some sites build their content with JavaScript after loading. A plain fetch returns almost nothing for those. To handle them, install Playwright once:

npm install playwright && npx playwright install chromium

Then pass renderJs: true. The difference on such a page is dramatic:

Mode	Result
Default	~3 words — just navigation links
`renderJs: true`	~190 words — the full content

Playwright is not a dependency of this package, so a normal install stays small and fast. Without it, renderJs returns a clear message telling you how to enable it.

Security

The scraper refuses private, loopback, and link-local addresses — including cloud metadata endpoints like 169.254.169.254 — and re-validates every redirect hop. This matters because an MCP server runs on your machine, with access to your local network.

Need to scrape at scale?

This package handles one page at a time, locally. For batch scraping, hosted JavaScript rendering, and a pay-per-page API with no infrastructure to run, the same engine is available as a hosted Actor:

https://apify.com/perforated_hummingbird/url-to-markdown

Known limitations

Some sites block automated traffic. That's a site policy, not a bug here.
Non-UTF-8 pages may render with garbled characters.
No robots.txt enforcement — you are responsible for how you use it.

Local development

npm install

npm run build node dist/try.js https://example.com # quick test node dist/try.js https://example.com --render # with JS rendering

License

MIT

Clean Markdown

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Docs, sheets & office worki

Common questions

Alternatives

Agent-Native Calendar

Excel MCP Server

MCP Server for Excel

README from the maker

clean-markdown-mcp

Install

Use it with Claude Desktop

The tool it exposes

How the cleaning works

JavaScript-heavy sites (optional)

Security

Need to scrape at scale?

Known limitations

Local development

License