twars-url2md

A command-line tool that converts web pages to Markdown. It fetches HTML content, processes it to remove unnecessary styling, and converts it to clean Markdown format.

Features

• Fetch HTML content from URLs with proper user agent identification
• Remove styles and unnecessary formatting
• Convert HTML to clean Markdown
• Process multiple URLs in parallel
• Smart output path handling based on URL structure
• Support for input from:
  • Command line arguments
  • Input file (one URL per line)
  • Standard input (space or newline separated)

Installation

From crates.io

cargo install twars-url2md

From Binary Releases

Pre-built binaries are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows on the Releases page.

From source

git clone https://github.com/twardoch/twars-url2md.git
cd twars-url2md
cargo install --path .

Usage

# Process a single URL and print to stdout
twars-url2md https://example.com

# Process a single URL and save to file
twars-url2md https://example.com -o example.md

# Process multiple URLs and save to current directory (creates domain-based folders)
twars-url2md https://example.com https://example.org

# Process multiple URLs and save to specific directory
twars-url2md https://example.com https://example.org -o output/

# Process URLs from a file
twars-url2md -f urls.txt -o output/

# Read URLs from stdin
echo "https://example.com https://example.org" | twars-url2md --stdin

# Show verbose output
twars-url2md -v https://example.com

Output Path Structure

For URLs like scheme://username:password@host:port/path?query#fragment:

• Username, password, query parameters, port, and fragments are ignored
• Files are organized in folders based on the host and path
• For URLs ending in / or with no path, index.md is used as the filename
• For other URLs, the last path component is used as the filename (with .md extension)

Example:

$ twars-url2md https://example.com/ https://example.org/foo/bar
Created: example.com/index.md
Created: example.org/foo/bar.md

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md for a list of changes.

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

Author

Adam Twardoch (@twardoch)