Show HN: Chidori – Fast web-to-Markdown fetching for AI agents

Category: cli-tool

Tags: web-scraping, markdown, cli-tool

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Chidori is a fast Rust-based CLI tool that fetches web pages and converts them to clean Markdown, optimized for AI agents and shell scripts. It stands out by outputting Markdown to stdout (with logs to stderr) for safe piping, and includes features like metadata extraction and optional JavaScript rendering. This fills a niche need for agent-friendly web content extraction without heavy browser automation.

Target audience: backend devs, data engineers, ai-ml engineers

Repository: https://github.com/taishikato/chidori · Rust · MIT · 3 stars

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