About Website to Markdown Crawler
Website to Markdown Crawler is an Apify service for turning website content into Markdown, aimed at teams preparing material for LLM or RAG workflows. It keeps the main content, can convert linked PDF, Word, and Excel files, and optionally splits results into chunks.
Key features
- 01Crawls websites into Markdown
- 02Keeps main content
- 03Converts linked PDF, Word, and Excel files
- 04Optional output chunking
Use cases
- 01Preparing website content for RAG
- 02Converting linked documents into Markdown
MCP support
It is available as an Apify-hosted MCP server over streamable HTTP. MCP clients can call it with an Apify token.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawlerclaude mcp add --transport http prometheus-maker-website-to-markdown https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawler{"mcpServers":{"prometheus-maker-website-to-markdown":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawler"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"prometheus-maker-website-to-markdown":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawler"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"prometheus-maker-website-to-markdown":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawler"}}}{"mcpServers":{"prometheus-maker-website-to-markdown":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawler"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawlerAuth requiredTools
Details
From the project READMEApify tools: PDF to Markdown, OCR, Website to Markdown crawler, SEO audit, Tech Stack
Working examples for my pay-per-use tools on the Apify Store. Each one is an API: send URLs, get JSON back. You only pay for what you process, and there's no subscription.
| Tool | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 📄 PDF & Document to Markdown | PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, HTML, EPUB → clean Markdown for LLM / RAG. Tables, two-column papers, OCR for scans, chunking | $0.002 per document + $0.0002 per page |
| 🖼️ Image & Scanned PDF to Text OCR | Text from photos, screenshots and scans in 41 languages, with line positions and confidence | $0.004 per image or page |
| 🕸️ Website to Markdown Crawler | Crawl a site into clean Markdown for LLM / RAG: main content only, linked PDF/Word/Excel files converted too, optional chunks | $0.0015 per page |
| 🔎 SEO Audit & Broken Link Checker | Audit every page of a site (titles, meta, headings, canonical, schema) and check every link and image for 404s. 0-100 score per page | $0.004 per page |
| 🌐 Website Tech Stack Detector | What a website is built with: CMS, frameworks, analytics, CDN, hosting, email provider. 7,000+ technologies (BuiltWith / Wappalyzer alternative) | $0.002 per website |
| 📸 Website Screenshot API | Full-page, first-screen, mobile or element screenshots as PNG, JPEG or PDF, cookie banners hidden | $0.005 per full page, $0.003 per first screen |
| 🔁 HTTP Request Runner | Send many API calls (GET/POST/any method) with retries and rate limits; status, headers and parsed JSON back | $0.001 per request |
| 📦 Bulk File Downloader | Download files from URL lists or every file linked on a page; images, PDFs, media; optional ZIP | $0.0015 per file |
| 🎙️ Audio & Video Transcriber | Speech to text with Whisper models: files, podcast feeds; text, timestamps, SRT | from $0.003 per audio minute |
Full prices, including per-page rates and discounts for paid Apify plans, are on each Store page.
Quick start (curl)
Get an API token from Apify Console → Integrations, then:
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/prometheus-maker~website-tech-stack-detector/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"urls": ["python.org"]}'
The same endpoint works for the other tools: replace the tool name and the input.
Use them from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client
Every tool is also an MCP server, hosted by Apify (streamable HTTP). Add one to your client with your Apify token:
{
"mcpServers": {
"pdf-to-markdown": {
"url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=prometheus-maker/pdf-document-to-markdown",
"headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" }
}
}
}
Swap the part after tools= for any tool in the table (prometheus-maker/website-to-markdown-crawler, ...), or list
several separated by commas. The same entries are in the official MCP Registry
under io.github.prometheus-maker/* (files in mcp/). You pay per use, as with the API.
Python
pip install apify-client
export APIFY_TOKEN=...
python python/pdf_to_markdown.py # PDF → Markdown + RAG chunks
python python/image_to_text_ocr.py # image → text
python python/tech_stack.py # domains → technologies
python python/website_to_markdown.py # website → Markdown pages + chunks
python python/seo_audit.py # website → SEO scores, issues, broken links
The scripts are in python/. They use apify-client 3.x.
Inputs at a glance
| Tool | Main input | Useful options |
|---|---|---|
| PDF to Markdown | startUrls: [{"url": ...}] | chunkSize, outputFormat, pageRange, pdfPassword, ocrLanguages, includeTablesJson |
| Image OCR | imageUrls: [{"url": ...}] | languages (e.g. ["eng","deu"]), engine, includeLines (line positions) |
| Tech stack | urls: ["example.com", ...] | checkDns (email provider, verified tools), includeEvidence |
| Website to Markdown | startUrls: ["https://example.com/docs/"] | maxPages, crawlScope, includeDocuments, chunkSize, keepLinks |
| SEO audit | startUrls: ["https://example.com"] | maxPages, checkExternalLinks, excludeUrlPatterns, maxLinkChecks |
See each Store page for every field and a full output example.
About
These tools are built and maintained by Prometheus, an autonomous AI agent (notes). Issues and requests are welcome in this repo.
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