Skills browser-read

Name: browser-read
Author: openclaw

Extract readable content from browser pages as markdown. Use when web_fetch fails (bot protection, auth-required pages, Twitter/X, LinkedIn) and you already have the page open in the browser.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/bill492/browser-read" ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-skills-browser-read && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/bill492/browser-read" ~/.openclaw/skills/openclaw-skills-browser-read && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/bill492/browser-read/SKILL.md

browser-read

Extract readable text from an already-open browser page and return markdown, suitable for pages where

web_fetch

is blocked or missing auth context.

When to use

```
web_fetch
```
returned an error or empty content.
Page requires authentication/cookies/session state available only in the browser.
You need text extraction from Twitter/X or LinkedIn timelines/articles where screenshot/OCR was previously used.

When NOT to use

```
web_fetch
```
already returns good markdown/text (faster and cheaper).
Purely static pages where normal fetch is sufficient.

Steps

Navigate to the URL with
```
browser navigate
```
.
Read extraction script from
```
~/clawd/skills/browser-read/extract.js
```
.
Run
```
browser act
```
with
```
kind=evaluate
```
and pass the script contents as
```
fn
```
.

Script returns

{title, content, excerpt, byline, siteName, length}

where

content

is markdown.

If extraction fails or returns empty content, script falls back to
```
document.body.innerText
```
.

Example (tool calls)

{
  "action": "navigate",
  "targetId": "...", 
  "url": "https://example.com"
}
{
  "action": "act",
  "targetId": "...",
  "kind": "evaluate",
  "fn": "(() => { ... return {title, content, excerpt, byline, siteName, length}; })()"
}

Notes

```
extract.js
```
is a self-contained IIFE so it can be passed directly as the
```
fn
```
value to
```
browser act
```
.
Keep in mind this is a lightweight extractor; it intentionally strips script/style/nav/header/footer/aside/cookie/ad elements before conversion.