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Convert URL HTML to markdown format and get page links

Ready for 3.0

by simonscrapes ✓ · 4,894 views · created 2024-10-20 · Document Extraction, Multimodal AI

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This workflow has 10 nodes and runs manually, when you click “Execute workflow”. It uses only n8n's built-in nodes. It also calls api.firecrawl.dev over HTTP.

How it runs

Trigger: Manually, when you click “Execute workflow”.

  1. Example fields from data source (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: Page
  2. Split Out: splits a list into separate items
  3. 40 items at a time (Limit): keeps the first few items
  4. 10 at a time (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
  5. Retrieve Page Markdown and Links (HTTP Request): calls api.firecrawl.dev (POST)
  6. Markdown data and Links (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 4 fields: title, description, content…
  7. Wait: waits 45 seconds

HTTP calls to: api.firecrawl.dev

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Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (8)

From the author

Use Case Transform web pages into AI-friendly markdown format: - You need to process webpage content for LLM analysis - You want to extract both content and links from web pages - You need clean, formatted text without HTML markup - You want to respect API…

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