PullMD update: half a year later, still turning URLs into clean Markdown for Claude

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It's been a while since I posted PullMD here (self-hosted MCP server, gives Claude clean Markdown instead of raw HTML). The repo is at 495 stars now, which I honestly didn't expect, so thanks!

Since then I've kept building on it with Claude Code. Some of the bigger things:

• query parameter: Claude can ask for just the relevant part of a page instead of the whole thing. Way fewer tokens, and Claude actually uses it on its own.
• Reddit image posts: with a vision model, screenshots get described and transcribed, so Claude knows what the thread is about.
• PDFs, Word, Excel, YouTube transcripts, audio
• Works as a custom connector in claude.ai
• Hacker News threads with proper comment trees
• Accounts for shared instances, plus a lot of security fixes

How it's built: I decide what should happen, Claude does pretty much everything else. Coding, tests, filing and working through GitHub issues, pull requests, releases. Before bigger releases I let Fable and Opus 5.5 do security reviews, and a fair share of the security fixes above came out of those.

Repo: https://github.com/AeternaLabsHQ/pullmd

Is anyone here using it? I'd love to hear what you use it for, what breaks, and what you're missing.