Web Reading
Purpose
Converts any URL into clean Markdown text, removing ads, navigation, styling, and other distractions. Suitable for:
- Reading API documentation (
tushare,OKX,yfinance, and similar) - Reading technical articles and blogs
- Retrieving research reports and announcements
- Reading GitHub README / Wiki pages
Usage
Call the read_url tool directly (do not use bash + requests, call the tool directly):
read_url(url="https://tushare.pro/document/2?doc_id=27")
Returns JSON:
{
"status": "ok",
"title": "Page title",
"url": "Original URL",
"content": "Page content in Markdown format",
"length": 12345
}
Notes
- Content longer than 8000 characters will be truncated, with the total length noted at the end
- Dynamically rendered SPA pages may return only skeleton HTML
- Chinese content is supported normally
Privacy & freshness
- Third-party dependency:
read_urlforwards the full target URL (including any query string) to the external Jina Reader service (r.jina.ai). Do not pass URLs containing credentials, tokens, or private/internal addresses — they would leave this host. - **Caching/staleness:*…