Is io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown safe to use?

io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown?

io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What can io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown do?

io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown provides 2 tools: Install, Security. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.

What AI clients work with io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown?

io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.

Is io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown actively maintained?

io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is recently maintained — last commit was 30 days ago.

io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown

playwright

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

83.1M/wk 2 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Maintained

Last commit 30d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse

2 tools · ~57 tok

Grade A · 0.0% of 200K ctx

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io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is an MCP server that any URL to clean, LLM-ready Markdown for RAG. Strips ads, nav, and boilerplate. Its tool list has not been published yet over stdio and sse, requires no API key, and scores 90/100 on MCPpedia's security, maintenance and efficiency rubric.

Writing Developer Tools

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

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What io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown does

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

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

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OSV.dev

1 fixed

CVE-2025-59288high · fixed

Playwright downloads and installs browsers without verifying the authenticity of the SSL certificate

### Summary Use of `curl` with the `-k` (or `--insecure`) flag in installer scripts allows attackers to deliver arbitrary executables via Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks. This can lead to full system compromise, as the downloaded files are installed as privileged applications. ### Details The following scripts in the `microsoft/playwright` repository at commit [`bee11cbc28f24bd18e726163d0b9b1571b4f26a8`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/commit/bee11cbc28f24bd18e726163d0b9b1571b4f26a8) u

Affected: >= 0Fixed in 1.55.1source →

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Is io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown safe to use?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown do?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown provides 2 tools: Install, Security. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
Is io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown actively maintained?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is recently maintained — last commit was 30 days ago.

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Writing Developer Tools

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

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Read me

What io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown does

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

Test This Server

Run this in your terminal to verify the server starts. Then let us know if it worked — your result helps other developers.

npx -y 'playwright' 2>&1 | head -1 && echo "✓ Server started successfully"

After testing, let us know if it worked:

README

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 <body> 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

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

90/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−10

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

1 fixed

CVE-2025-59288high · fixed

Playwright downloads and installs browsers without verifying the authenticity of the SSL certificate

Affected: >= 0Fixed in 1.55.1source →

Inventory

Tools (2)

Click any tool to inspect its schema.

~57 tokens total

Community

Reviews

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Have you used this server?

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How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown safe to use?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What can io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown do?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown provides 2 tools: Install, Security. See the full tools list on the server page for descriptions and parameters.
What AI clients work with io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse transport.
Is io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown actively maintained?: io.github.damonwill78-a11y/clean-markdown is recently maintained — last commit was 30 days ago.