Show HN: Snitchmd – Cloudflare-protected URLs into clean Markdown via Docker (opens in new tab)

Shmauthor here. Built this for myself, putting it out in case it's useful.

Needed any URL as clean Markdown for LLM context — including Cloudflare/anti-bot sites. curl gets HTTP 403 on those, raw HTML is 80%+ nav noise eating context, paid SaaS (Firecrawl, Jina) wasn't an option for me.

It's a Docker wrapper around two existing OSS tools — CloakBrowser (stealth Chromium that passes Cloudflare) and rs-trafilatura (HTML → Markdown). No new scraper, just glue. Runs locally, my URLs stay on my box

Token reduction (raw curl HTML vs snitchmd, tiktoken cl100k_base):

- cloudflare.com/learning/bots — curl: HTTP 403 → snitchmd: 0.8k

- docs.docker.com/engine/install — 187k → 0.9k

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LLM — 222.7k → 29.7k

Heads up: passes Cloudflare, can't solve "click traffic lights" captchas (reCAPTCHA v2, hCaptcha)

MIT. Happy to answer questions