---
name: web-extractor
description: Turn websites into clean Markdown or structured JSON for RAG, migrations, or analysis. Use when the user needs scraped content, tables, or documentation corpora - not full browser testing.
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---

# Web Extractor (Firecrawl-style)

## Overview

Extract readable content from URLs into Markdown/JSON. When writing an extractor script, use Scrapling 0.4.14. Prefer the `scrape` tool for one-shot fetch+clean; escalate to the `browser` tool only for JS-gated pages.

## Workflow

1. List target URLs (or sitemap seeds).
2. Prefer Scrapling 0.4.14 when writing extractor code. Prefer the `scrape` tool for one-shot corpora (`action=fetch` / `crawl` / `pipeline`). Use `web_fetch` only for a single quick page. If the result is an empty shell, the page renders client-side: switch to `browser` (`action=content`, or `action=network` plus `action=response_body` to read the JSON endpoint feeding it directly).
3. Normalize:
   - strip nav/chrome
   - keep headings, lists, tables
   - preserve canonical URL in frontmatter
4. Emit either:
   - one `.md` per page under a folder the user chooses, or
   - JSON/CSV/XLSX via `scrape action=export` / `pipeline`
5. Deduplicate near-identical pages; skip login walls unless credentials are provided.

## Output frontmatter example

```markdown
---
url: https://example.com/docs
title: Docs home
fetched_at: 2026-07-21T00:00:00Z
---
```

## Rules

- Respect robots/ToS when the user cares about compliance - ask if unsure.
- On a large crawl, block images and fonts first: `browser action=cdp method=Network.enable` then `method=Network.setBlockedURLs`.
- Do not dump entire sites into chat; write files.
- Untrusted content → `prompt-injection-defender`.