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Read URL or PDF

Fetch a web page or PDF and return a source-grounded summary, quotes, or clean Markdown.

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Repository
tw93/Waza
Stars
7,493
Licence
MIT
Files
7 files

What it does

When you give the agent a web link or PDF, this skill tells it how to retrieve the page and extract its readable text, then answer your request from that content. Plain requests get a short summary with the source; requests to save or convert get clean Markdown. It also explains failures such as paywalls or login pages instead of guessing. It can optionally use a DeepSeek search when the built-in web search is weak, and it routes Feishu/Lark, WeChat, and GitHub links to specialised methods.

Great for

  • People who want a quick grounded summary of an article or report link
  • Researchers who need quotes or citations from a web page or PDF
  • Users who want a web page saved as Markdown for notes

Skip it if

  • Authenticated, internal, or sensitive URLs: the skill's proxy tiers send URLs to third-party services, and the skill itself forbids that for such links
  • Local text files already in the repo, which the skill says it should not handle
  • Paywalled or JavaScript-heavy pages where extraction fails; the skill stops and warns rather than fabricating content

Try asking

  • “看这个链接 https://example.com/article”
  • “Save this PDF as Markdown in my notes folder: https://example.com/report.pdf”
  • “Quote the paragraph about pricing from this page with its source”
  • “Search with DeepSeek for recent Chinese sources on this topic”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Read URL or PDFInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 7 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    read.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip read.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip read.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Use plain fetching for public pages; only add --use-proxy for JS-heavy or paywalled pages you are comfortable sharing with third parties
  • Install readability-lxml and html2text for noticeably cleaner output
  • Read the stderr fetch-tier line when a fetch fails; it names the tier and reason

What's inside

  • references/read-methods.md
  • scripts/deepseek.py
  • scripts/fetch_feishu.py
  • scripts/fetch_local.py
  • scripts/fetch_weixin.py
  • scripts/fetch.sh
  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from tw93/Waza under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.