anything-to-md

Convert any URL or file to high-quality Markdown using the tomd command.

Supported Inputs

• Webpage URL — any website article
• WeChat article — mp.weixin.qq.com links
• YouTube video — extracts subtitles or downloads audio for ASR transcription
• Bilibili video — downloads audio and transcribes via Whisper ASR
• Douyin video — extracts from iesdouyin (zero-dependency), transcribes audio
• Xiaohongshu post — image/video notes, supports share text with URL extraction
• Local files — PDF, DOCX, PPTX, XLSX, EPUB, CSV, JSON, etc.

How to Use

When the user provides a URL or file path and asks to convert it to Markdown, run:

tomd "\x3Cinput>" --stdout

Where \x3Cinput> is:

• A URL: https://example.com/article
• A share text containing a URL (common for Douyin/Xiaohongshu): "照着做！... http://xhslink.com/xxx ..."
• A local file path: ~/Documents/paper.pdf

Options

• --stdout — output Markdown to stdout (default when used as a skill)
• -o \x3Cpath> — save to a specific file
• -d \x3Cdir> — save to a specific directory
• --type \x3Ctype> — force input type: webpage, wechat, youtube, bilibili, douyin, xiaohongshu, file
• -v — verbose output with progress logs

Examples

# Convert a webpage
tomd "https://example.com/article" --stdout

# Convert a YouTube video (extracts subtitles or ASR)
tomd "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxx" --stdout

# Convert a WeChat article
tomd "https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/abc123" --stdout

# Convert a Bilibili video
tomd "https://www.bilibili.com/video/BVxxx" --stdout

# Convert from Douyin share text
tomd "https://v.douyin.com/xxx" --stdout

# Convert a Xiaohongshu post
tomd "https://www.xiaohongshu.com/explore/xxx" --stdout

# Convert a local PDF
tomd ~/Documents/paper.pdf --stdout

Output Format

The output is Markdown with YAML frontmatter containing metadata:

---
title: Article Title
author: Author Name
source_url: https://...
source_type: webpage
date: 2026-04-22
---

Article content in Markdown...

For video content, the output includes a ## Transcript section with timestamped text.

Error Handling

• If tomd is not found, install it: uv pip install "anything-to-md[video] @ git+https://github.com/haiwenai/anything-to-md.git"
• If ffmpeg is not found: brew install ffmpeg
• If yt-dlp is not found: brew install yt-dlp
• If YouTube returns "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot", tomd will automatically retry with browser cookies from Chrome
• Use -v flag for detailed error diagnosis