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name: web-fetch description: Fetch and extract clean content from URLs using Jina Reader API. Use when users need to read webpage content, extract article text, or fetch URL content for analysis. Triggers on "fetch this page", "read this URL", "extract content from", "get the content of", "what does this page say".

Web Fetch

Overview

Extract clean, readable content from any URL using Jina Reader API. Returns raw JSON with title, content, and metadata optimized for LLM consumption.

When to Use

• User wants to read or analyze webpage content
• Need to extract article text from a URL
• Fetching documentation or reference pages
• Converting web pages to clean text for processing

Workflow

1. Identify the URL from user request
2. Validate URL format
3. Run the fetch script
4. Present extracted content to user

Usage

Copy# Basic fetch
uv run --script scripts/web_fetch.py --url "https://example.com"

# With custom timeout
uv run --script scripts/web_fetch.py \
  --url "https://example.com/article" \
  --timeout 60

Parameters

Output Contract

Success output contains:

• Page title and description
• Clean extracted content (markdown-formatted)
• URL and metadata
• Token usage information

Prerequisites

• Uses Jina Reader API (no API key required)
• Requires uv for running PEP 723 scripts

Examples

Fetch a webpage

Copyuv run --script scripts/web_fetch.py \
  --url "https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.12.html"

Fetch with longer timeout for slow pages

Copyuv run --script scripts/web_fetch.py \
  --url "https://example.com/large-article" \
  --timeout 60