Web Scraping to Markdown: Extract and Clean Articles
Scrape web pages and convert the main content to Markdown. Use Readability.js to extract articles, then Turndown to produce clean Markdown.
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Web Scraping to Markdown: Extract Article Content and Strip Boilerplate When you scrape a webpage and look at the raw HTML, you get everything: navigation, ads, cookie banners, related article widgets, footer links, share buttons, and somewhere in the middle, the actual content you wanted. The ratio of boilerplate to content on a typical news or blog page is often 10:1 by volume. Saving raw HTML is wasteful. Parsing it later is painful. The better approach is to extract the article content at scrape time and save it as Markdown — structured, readable, and free of noise. This guide covers the tools and techniques for doing that reliably. What Boilerplate Removal Actually Means Before getting into tools, it's worth being precise about what we're removing. Boilerplate on a webpage falls into…
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