Web

Mode: 🔐 Browser · Domain: any URL

Commands

Command	Description
opencli web read --url <url>	Fetch any web page and export as Markdown

Usage Examples

# Read a web page and save as Markdown
opencli web read --url https://example.com/article

# Custom output directory
opencli web read --url https://example.com/article --output ./my-articles

# Skip image download
opencli web read --url https://example.com/article --download-images false

# JSON output
opencli web read --url https://example.com/article -f json

# Iframe/AJAX shell page: wait for rendered data and print diagnostics
opencli web read \
  --url https://example.com/shell.html \
  --wait-for "#gridDatas li" \
  --wait-until networkidle \
  --diagnose

Render-Aware Reading

web read runs in Chrome, not in a raw HTTP fetcher. It now handles common shell pages where the top document only contains layout and the real content is rendered later.

Option	Purpose
--frames same-origin	Default. Merge relevant accessible same-origin iframe bodies into the extracted HTML before Markdown conversion.
--frames all-same-origin	Exhaustive mode. Merge every accessible same-origin iframe when completeness matters more than Markdown noise.
--frames none	Disable iframe merging when the embedded content is noisy.
--wait-for <selector>	Wait until a CSS selector appears in the main document or a same-origin iframe before extraction.
--wait-until networkidle	Start network capture before navigation and wait until captured requests are quiet.
--diagnose	Print frame tree, empty table/list containers, and API-like XHR/fetch requests to stderr.

Cross-origin iframes are listed in diagnostics but not merged. If diagnostics reveal that the page data comes from an API endpoint, prefer a dedicated adapter or opencli browser network --detail <key> for structured data instead of forcing table-like data into Markdown.

Prerequisites

• Chrome running
• Browser Bridge extension installed