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description: A purpose-built "GET-and-read" tool that returns clean text, not raw HTML.
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# Web Scraper

A purpose-built fetch tool, separate from generic `http_request` / `curl`. It exists because the agent doesn't want raw HTML - it wants the *article*.

## What it does

* Fetches a URL.
* Strips boilerplate (nav, ads, footer, scripts).
* Returns clean text the agent can reason over.

## Guardrails

* Caps response at 1 MB - large pages get truncated, not silently dropped.
* 20-second timeout - slow servers don't stall the conversation.
* Subject to the same proxy and URL-guard rules as other network tools.

## What it's good for

* Reading articles, blog posts, docs pages, GitHub READMEs without the noise.
* Following up on a [Web Search](web-search.md) result.
* Summarising a single page on demand.

## See also

* [Web Search](web-search.md) - find URLs to feed into the scraper.
* [Smart Token Compression](../token-compression.md) - what trims long pages before they hit the model.
