Snitchmd
Cloudflare-protected URLs into clean Markdown via Docker
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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
HN · launched Apr 29, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 52%) · 0 views
Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Yes It packages headless browser automation (like Playwright/Puppeteer with stealth plugins) and HTML-to-markdown parsing into a simple Docker container.
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Launched 181 days after the earliest competitor.
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