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Markdocify: Turning Documentation into Easy-to-Use Markdown

Markdocify is a handy tool that takes documentation from websites and turns it into simple Markdown files. This helps developers who often struggle to find information scattered across different pages. By changing complex HTML pages into plain text, Markdocify makes it easier to use and understand documentation.

Benefits

Markdocify has several great features:

1. Creating llms.txt Files: Markdocify helps make llms.txt files, which makes it simple to use documentation with LLMs.
2. Feeding Claude/ChatGPT: Developers can use Markdocify to give documentation to LLMs like Claude or ChatGPT while they are working.
3. Offline Access: Markdocify lets developers read documentation without needing the internet, so they don’t have to keep switching tabs while working.
4. Support for Various Documentation Types: Markdocify works with different kinds of documentation, including JavaScript-rendered SPAs, complex navigation, internal links, and it follows rules like robots.txt and rate limiting. It also keeps the formatting clean and easy to read.

Use Cases

Markdocify can be used in many ways:

1. Real-World Use Case: Instead of switching between an IDE and documentation tabs, developers can use Markdocify to have all the documentation right in their LLM session.
2. LLM Training Data: Making clean and complete datasets to improve language models.
3. Compliance and Auditing: Creating saved copies of API documentation for compliance checks.
4. Knowledge Preservation: Saving documentation before big updates to keep important information.
5. llms.txt Generation: Making structured content that fits the llms.txt standard.

Installation and Usage

To install Markdocify, use this command:

brew install vladkampov/tap/markdocify

To run Markdocify, use this command:

markdocify https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/introduction

You can find more examples at https://markdocify.dev.

Vibes

Markdocify has been praised for making documentation easier to access and use with LLMs. Developers like how simple it is to use and how much it improves their work.

Additional Information

Markdocify was first made to solve the problem of information being spread out across many websites. It has grown into a tool that helps create good training data for LLMs, keeps knowledge accessible offline, and saves important information. The tool is open source, with clear instructions and guidelines, making it easy for people to work together and improve it.