visit-webpage

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Visit a webpage and extract its content as markdown, or fetch images. Use for reading articles, documentation, or any web page content. Handles both HTML pages (via Jina Reader) and image URLs (downloads and saves locally).

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Visit Webpage

Fetch and extract readable content from web pages as markdown, or download images. Handles JavaScript-rendered content via Jina Reader service.

Setup

Optionally get a Jina API key for higher rate limits:

Create an account at https://jina.ai/
Get your API key from the dashboard
Add to your shell profile (~/.profile or ~/.zprofile for zsh):
```
export JINA_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
```

Without an API key, the service works with rate limits.

Usage

{baseDir}/visit.py <url>

Examples

# Read an article (returns markdown)
{baseDir}/visit.py https://example.com/article

# Fetch documentation
{baseDir}/visit.py https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html

# Download an image (auto-detected by content-type)
{baseDir}/visit.py https://example.com/image.png
# Then use read tool to view: read /tmp/visit-image-xxx.png

Output

For HTML pages: Returns markdown content to stdout.

For images: Downloads the image to a temp file and prints the path. Use the read tool to view it. Supports PNG, JPEG, GIF, and WebP formats.

Features

Extracts main content from HTML pages
Converts HTML to clean markdown
Handles JavaScript-rendered pages via Jina Reader
Auto-detects and downloads images to temp files
Retries on rate limiting (HTTP 451)
5MB max image size limit

When to Use

Reading articles, blog posts, or documentation
Extracting content from search results
Downloading images from URLs (then use read to view)
Following links found during web search