Free Website to Markdown Converter for LLM and RAG Pipelines

The Problem If you are building AI applications with LLMs, you know the pain: raw HTML is useless for training data. You need clean, structured Markdown. Most solutions like Firecrawl or Crawl4AI require setup, dependencies, and often paid plans. The Manual Way You could write your own parser: import re import urllib.request def html_to_markdown ( url ): html = urllib . request . urlopen ( url ). read (). decode () # Remove scripts, styles html = re . sub ( r " " , "" , html , flags = re . DOTAL