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I'm working on pure.md[1], which lets your scripts, APIs, apps, agents, etc reliably access web content in markdown format. Simply prefix any URL with `pure.md/` and you get the unblocked markdown content of that webpage. It avoids bot detection and renders JavaScript-heavy websites, and can convert HTML, PDFs, images, and more into pure markdown.

pure.md acts as a global caching layer between LLMs and web content. I like to think of it like a CDN for LLMs, similar to how Cloudinary is a CDN for images.

[1] https://pure.md

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Love the recursion redirect at pure.md/pure.md

You found the easter egg!

It seems to miss URLs?

At: https://willadams.gitbook.io/design-into-3d/2d-drawing the links for:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/bookI....

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/bookI/defI1....

are rendered as:

_Elements_ _:_ _Book I_ _:_ _Definition 1_

Maybe detect when a page is on gitbook or some other site where there is .md source on github or some other site and grab the original instead?

By default, href values of <a> tags are removed, because they add significant token length without adding more context. Coming soon, you can specify a request header to set whether or not you want links removed from the response. Those underscores you mentioned are from the italics.

Cool project!

Recently discussed, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43462894 (10 comments)

Thanks for sharing. I was planning on building something like this in April after hitting too many issues with Jina and Tavily but it looks like you've already done the hard work!

Thanks! Still a work in progress :-)

What a great idea, I will soon be a paying customer. This solves a problem of an app I'm using that I was hesitant to try to develop myself.

Much appreciated!

Very nice, how did you manage to bypass sites with cloudflare turnstile setup?

Flaresolverr most probably

how do you exactly fallback to common crawl? isn't the cost to even hold and query common crawl insane?

With AWS Athena, you can query the contents of someone else’s public S3 bucket. You pay per read, but if you craft your query the right way then it’s very inexpensive. Each query I run only scans about 1MB of data.

Since I was just looking at this accidentally, here are some examples of how to query at a ~cent-per-query cost level (just examples but quite illustrative): https://commoncrawl.org/blog/index-to-warc-files-and-urls-in...

Is there an example we can see?

https://pure.md/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4353323...

Works great on mobile thanks, helpful tool to bypass flaky websites, js and even some paywalls.

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