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Docs Crawler

Category: Science & Research  ·  Sub-category: science-misc  ·  Last updated:
lang:javascriptai:llm
Crawl an entire documentation or design-system website into one LLM-ready Markdown corpus. Discovers every page from the site's sitemap.xml (with a same-origin link-following fallback when there is no sitemap), extracts each page's main content as clean Markdown, downloads each page's images (and inline base64 images) into a local folder referenced by relative paths, and renders JavaScript-heavy pages with a headless browser. Use this whenever someone wants the WHOLE of a multi-page docs site, design-system site, API reference, component library, or knowledge base turned into Markdown — for example "crawl this docs site", "turn this design system site into markdown", "make an LLM or RAG corpus from these docs", "mirror the entire documentation", "archive the whole knowledge base", or "give an AI the full X documentation". It applies even when the user never says the word "crawl" — any request to capture, ingest, archive, or convert a whole site's documentation pages into text fits. The design-md skill also calls it during research to gather a brand's published design-system docs. Do not use it for reading or summarizing a single page, for scraping structured data such as prices into a spreadsheet, or for generating a sitemap.
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From the source SKILL.md

Crawl a documentation website into a single Markdown corpus that an LLM can consume as context.

What this skill does

Docs Crawler is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the science-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/docs-crawler/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Docs Crawler Claude Code skill is built for researchers, data scientists, academics, and analysts working with complex data and scientific literature. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 201,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/docs-crawler
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/docs-crawler/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/docs-crawler/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/docs-crawler/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/docs-crawler/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\docs-crawler\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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📱 Install from your phone or desktop Telegram

Open @claudskills_bot on Telegram, tap Open Desktop App, and the desktop app installs this skill for you. Or share the bot link with a colleague — they get the same one-tap install. Learn more →

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Frequently asked questions

How do I install the Docs Crawler Claude Code skill?
Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/docs-crawler/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.
What does the Docs Crawler skill do?
Crawl an entire documentation or design-system website into one LLM-ready Markdown corpus. Discovers every page from the site's sitemap.xml (with a same-origin link-following fallback when there is no sitemap), extracts each page's main content as clean Markdown, downloads each page's images (and inline base64 images) into a local folder referenced by relative paths, and renders JavaScript-heavy pages with a headless browser. Use this whenever someone wants the WHOLE of a multi-page docs site, design-system site, API reference, component library, or knowledge base turned into Markdown — for example "crawl this docs site", "turn this design system site into markdown", "make an LLM or RAG corpus from these docs", "mirror the entire documentation", "archive the whole knowledge base", or "give an AI the full X documentation". It applies even when the user never says the word "crawl" — any request to capture, ingest, archive, or convert a whole site's documentation pages into text fits. The design-md skill also calls it during research to gather a brand's published design-system docs. Do not use it for reading or summarizing a single page, for scraping structured data such as prices into a spreadsheet, or for generating a sitemap.
Is this skill free to install?
Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.
When should I use the Docs Crawler skill?
Use Docs Crawler when your Claude Code task falls under the Science & Research category — specifically in the science misc area. Claude Code auto-discovers installed skills and invokes the right one based on the task description, so you can also ask Claude directly (e.g. "use Docs Crawler" or describe the task and let Claude pick). Browse related skills at /category/science/.
What is a Claude Code skill and how does the Docs Crawler skill fit in?
A Claude Code skill is a SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Docs Crawler is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Science & Research category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.

Attribution & license

Cite this skill

If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:

APA
CaesiumY. (2026). Docs Crawler [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/docs-crawler/
BibTeX
@misc{docs-crawler-2026,
  author    = {CaesiumY},
  title     = {Docs Crawler [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/docs-crawler/}
}

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