Snitchmd
Cloudflare-protected URLs into clean Markdown via Docker
Details
- External ID
- 47949500
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Snitchmd
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Shmauthor here. Built this for myself, putting it out in case it's useful.Needed any URL as clean Markdown for LLM context — including Cloudflare/anti-bot sites. curl gets HTTP 403 on those, raw HTML is 80%+ nav noise eating context, paid SaaS (Firecrawl, Jina) wasn't an option for me.It's a Docker wrapper around two existing OSS tools — CloakBrowser (stealth Chromium that passes Cloudflare) and rs-trafilatura (HTML → Markdown). No new scraper, just glue. Runs locally, my URLs stay on my boxToken reduction (raw curl HTML vs snitchmd, tiktoken cl100k_base):- cloudflare.com/learning/bots — curl: HTTP 403 → snitchmd: 0.8k- docs.docker.com/engine/install — 187k → 0.9k- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLM — 222.7k → 29.7kHeads up: passes Cloudflare, can't solve "click traffic lights" captchas (reCAPTCHA v2, hCaptcha)MIT. Happy to answer questions
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert cloudflare-protected urls to markdown
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It packages headless browser automation (like Playwright/Puppeteer with stealth plugins) and HTML-to-markdown parsing into a simple Docker container.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Playwright
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