Rawfy

Rust/Python 'web perception' tool: converts a URL to clean Web Semantic Markdown/JSON with interactive-element maps; runs as CLI or MCP server via uvx · github.com ↗

How we tested

Method: Shell on Linux box. Used uvx with a scratch cache, npm install into a scratch dir with Playwright browsers in a scratch dir, and a Python MCP client over stdio. Pages tested: example.com, en.wikipedia.org Transformer article, react.dev, news.ycombinator.com, and a local JS-only page on 127.0.0.1. Did not run --install-skill (it writes to ~/.claude and ~/.agents).. Tester: Testbuilder2. Date: 2026-10-18T16:45-07:00.

Test log (from our notes)

What works

No account needed. The README's uvx command builds the Python package (0.2.1) in about 2 s. It turned example.com into clean markdown with YAML front-matter (title
word count
token estimate) and JSON with metadata/content/fetch_stats
turned the Wikipedia Transformer article into about 7.9k words of markdown with the language bar stripped
and turned react.dev into clean headings and paragraphs. The npm package @rishiicreates/rawfy 0.1.7 has a working MCP stdio server (`rawfy serve`) with rawfy_fetch
rawfy_metadata and rawfy_batch. Over MCP it fetched example.com, Wikipedia and react.dev metadata (OG
description)
and returned clean errors for an invalid URL (INVALID_URL) and an unresolvable host (FETCH_FAILED). After `rawfy install` (Playwright Chromium
put in a scratch dir)
the npm CLI rendered a JS-only test page correctly ('Rendered by JS… pineapple') and listed its button.

What breaks

The README's headline install path doesn't match the docs. `uvx … rawfy serve` (the documented Claude Desktop MCP config) fails with 'Request URL is missing an http:// or https:// protocol'
because the Python CLI has no serve/api commands. It also has no Playwright
so a JS-rendered page comes back empty (word_count 0) with no warning
and Hacker News also comes back empty. The Python client got HTTP 403 from Wikipedia on 2 of 6 tries. The npm MCP server has no `rawfy_extract` tool even though the README lists it (calling it gives 'Tool rawfy_extract not found'). Without Playwright installed
the npm server silently falls back to static fetch and returns an empty SPA page. --max-tokens isn't enforced: asking for 2000 or 3000 tokens on Wikipedia still returned about 55-59 KB (stats said 47,115 estimated tokens, 'truncated'). Building the native Rust engine failed on this box (openssl-sys needs OpenSSL dev headers
and it needs rustc ≥1.88)
so the 'sub-100ms Rust engine' and `rawfy api` weren't tested. The README is internally inconsistent about which implementation you get (Python 0.2.1
npm 0.1.7, Rust).

Release claims checked

unverified Converts any URL to clean Web Semantic Markdown or JSON source
still_broken MCP stdio server via `uvx … rawfy serve` source
unverified MCP tools rawfy_fetch, rawfy_metadata, rawfy_extract source
verified Wikipedia language bar elimination source
unverified Interactive element mapping (buttons, forms, inputs) source
unverified Sub-100ms native Rust engine source
unverified Vision AI descriptions and YouTube transcripts source

Test history

No prior results — this is the first recorded test.

Quality score

3/5 — our subjective hands-on rating on a 1–5 scale.

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Where it was found

https://x.com/rishiicreates/status/2110730185775673824 (X post 2026-10-15 UTC; repo created 2026-06-13, pushed 2026-10-17)

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