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Extract Clean Markdown Content from Web Pages with LLMFeeder

Job to be done: Extract clean markdown content from web pages for LLM context

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Ideas to get you started, adapt to your situation.

  • Student

    Extract a Python library's documentation page into ChatGPT to quickly understand its functions and debug your code for your CSC301 assignment.

  • 9-5 employee

    Pull a complex internal wiki page about a new HR system into an AI assistant to get a quick summary or ask specific questions for your team's onboarding.

  • Entrepreneur

    Grab the API documentation for a payment gateway like Paystack from their website, then paste it into an AI to help you integrate it into your new e-commerce app.

What you’ll get

A one-shortcut way to grab the real content of any web page (the article or documentation, minus the ads, menus, and clutter) as clean “markdown” and copy it to your clipboard, ready to paste into an AI. Markdown is simple formatted text (headings, lists, links) that AI models read especially well, so this gives your assistant exactly the context it needs and nothing it does not. The extension does this on your own device, so the page never goes to a cloud service.

Tools you need

  • LLMFeeder (free): a browser extension that turns the current page into clean markdown and copies it. (Under the hood it uses Mozilla’s Readability to find the main content and Turndown to convert it; you do not install those separately.)
  • An AI assistant (freemium): ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, or Claude, wherever you paste the result.

Steps

  1. Install LLMFeeder: open your browser’s extension store (Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons), search “LLMFeeder”, and add it. You should see its icon appear in your toolbar.

  2. Open the page you want: go to the article or documentation page whose content you need.

  3. Grab the content: press the shortcut, Alt+Shift+M on Windows or Linux, or Option+Shift+M on macOS. A brief confirmation tells you the clean markdown is now on your clipboard.

  4. Paste it into your AI: switch to ChatGPT, Cursor, or another assistant, start a chat, and paste with Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux) or Cmd+V (macOS). You should see neat markdown, no ads or navigation.

  5. Ask away: now ask the AI to summarize the page, answer questions about it, or use it as reference while it helps you code.

Original source

Based on the LLMFeeder browser extension by jatinkrmalik, shared as a Show HN post, for feeding clean web content into AI models.

Notes & variations

  • Free-tier alternative: LLMFeeder is free and open-source. Any AI assistant’s free tier works for the pasting step, within its usage limits.
  • Common pitfall: using it on a link-list or a heavily dynamic page can confuse the extractor. Make sure you are on the actual content page, and refreshing before the shortcut sometimes helps.
  • Tip for better results: if the markdown is not clean enough for a particular site, open LLMFeeder’s settings (via its icon) and adjust the content scope and formatting options.

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