Overview
The API fetches the page through a scraping service that tries a plain HTTP request first and falls back to a headless browser, retrying through a proxy when the site answers with a blocking status. The browser waits only for the DOM to load and skips images, fonts and media to stay fast. Non-public addresses are refused before any fetch, and pages that block the request or return an error status are reported as failures instead of being converted.
The HTML is parsed and `script`, `style`, `iframe`, `nav`, `header`, `footer`, `aside` and common sidebar, menu, advert, cookie-banner and popup classes are removed. Conversion starts from the first `main`, `article` or common content container, or from `body` if none is present. Headings become `#` to `######`, `pre` blocks become fenced code, tables become pipe tables with the first row as header, and lists, quotes, bold and italic map to their Markdown forms. Runs of blank lines and spaces are collapsed. `title` comes from the page `<title>`, then `og:title`, then the first `h1`.
`includeLinks` writes `[text](url)` and `includeImages` writes ``, resolving relative URLs against the page address and reading lazy-load `data-src` attributes. Both default to false and are ignored on the Free plan. `imageCount` and `linkCount` count elements in the content area whatever those settings are, excluding `#` and `javascript:` links. `wordCount` splits the final Markdown on whitespace. Results are cached for one hour per URL and option combination, and a page that yields under 10 characters of Markdown returns an error.
Live Test URL to Markdown Skill Skill →
The tool
Once your client is connected to the VerveKit server, this appears in its tool list as URLtoMarkdownSkill. It is read-only and open-world — it fetches and never mutates anything on your side — so most clients call it without asking you to confirm.
{
"name": "URLtoMarkdownSkill",
"arguments": {
"url": "https://example.com/"
}
}You do not name the tool yourself; the model picks it. Asking about https://example.com/ in the terms this skill covers is enough for it to reach for URLtoMarkdownSkill on its own — naming it explicitly also works, and is the way to force the call.
Connecting
One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth: the client opens a browser once, and there is no key to paste into a config file.
{
"mcpServers": {
"vervekit": {
"url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
}
}
}https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcpPer-client setup — Claude, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.
Arguments
These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made. Premium arguments are accepted on every plan but only take effect on plans that include them.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
urlRequired | string | The URL of the webpage to convert to Markdown url |
includeImagesOptionalPremium | boolean | Whether to include image references in the Markdown output |
includeLinksOptionalPremium | boolean | Whether to include hyperlinks in the Markdown output |
What the model gets back
The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client reads fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" and error is null on success; a null field means the value was not available for that input, not that the call failed.
{
"status": "ok",
"error": null,
"data": {
"url": "https://example.com/",
"title": "Example Domain",
"markdown": "# Example Domain\n\n\nThis domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. Avoid use in operations.\n\n\n[Learn more](https://iana.org/domains/example)",
"wordCount": 20,
"imageCount": 0,
"linkCount": 1
}
}
Response fields
Paths are relative to data. Premium fields are absent rather than zeroed on plans that do not include them, so check for presence instead of comparing to 0.
| Field | Type | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
url | string | https://example.com/ | The original URL that was converted |
title | string | Example Domain | Page title extracted from the webpage |
markdown | string | # Example Domain
This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. Avoi… | The converted Markdown content |
wordCount | number | 20 | Number of words in the extracted content |
imageCount | number | 0 | Number of images found in the content |
linkCount | number | 1 | Number of links found in the content |
Failure modes
Errors come back as tool errors carrying a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code. Error handling covers the full list.
| Status | What it means |
|---|---|
400 / 422 | The arguments did not validate. The message names the offending one. |
401 | The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server. |
403 | Blocked by a key restriction or an IP allow-list. Never a bad identity. |
404 | This skill is not part of VerveKit. Check the catalog. |
429 | Out of credits, or a brief rate limit. The message tells them apart. |
A call costs 10 credits each time the tool actually runs; a model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.
Use cases
- Static Site Migration
- Developers moving legacy blogs to static site generators extract page titles and converted text to generate clean Markdown source files automatically.
- Offline Documentation Readers
- Technical writers turn public product docs into offline Markdown manuals, tracking extracted word counts across pages to structure revision bundles.
- Knowledge Base Ingestion
- Feed live help center URLs to internal knowledge bases, stripping unnecessary HTML markup while preserving document headings and lists for local search.
- Web Page Archiving
- Before third-party guides go offline, research teams store target articles as version-controlled Markdown text plus recorded image and link counts.
Other ways to use URL to Markdown Skill
Set up URL to Markdown Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.
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