How to Scrape Markdown for RAG Pipelines

If you are building an AI application like a chatbot, a summarizer, or a research agent, you have likely run into the garbage in, garbage out problem. You want to let your user interact with your chatbot about your products. So, you spin up a headless browser with Puppeteer, dump the document.body.innerHTML , and feed it to OpenAI or Claude. That has 3 problems! Token Waste : Raw HTML is 60% boilerplate with divs, classes, scripts, styles, etc. You are paying for tokens that carry no semantic meaning. Hallucinations : LLMs get confused by navigation bars, footers, and cookie banners. Bot Detection : If you try to scrape a modern React site from your local server, you’ll get blocked by Cloudflare or CAPTCHAs. The solution is to stop scraping HTML and start extracting Markdown. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to use the Geekflare API to turn any webpage into LLM-ready Markdown. Why Markdown? LLMs love Markdown. It represents the structure of a document Headers, Lists, Tables without