Web Reader Skill

This skill guides the implementation of web page reading and content extraction functionality using the z-ai-web-dev-sdk package, enabling applications to fetch and process web page content programmatically.

Skills Path

Skill Location: {project_path}/skills/web-reader

This skill is located at the above path in your project.

Reference Scripts: Example test scripts are available in the {Skill Location}/scripts/ directory for quick testing and reference. See {Skill Location}/scripts/web-reader.ts for a working example.

Overview

Web Reader allows you to build applications that can extract content from web pages, retrieve article metadata, and process HTML content. The API automatically handles content extraction, providing clean, structured data from any web URL.

IMPORTANT: z-ai-web-dev-sdk MUST be used in backend code only. Never use it in client-side code.

Prerequisites

The z-ai-web-dev-sdk package is already installed. Import it as shown in the examples below.

CLI Usage (For Simple Tasks)

For simple web page content extraction, you can use the z-ai CLI instead of writing code. This is ideal for quick content scraping, testing URLs, or simple automation tasks.

Basic Page Reading

# Extract content from a web page
z-ai function --name "page_reader" --args '{"url": "https://example.com"}'

# Using short options
z-ai function -n page_reader -a '{"url": "https://www.example.com/article"}'

Save Page Content

# Save extracted content to JSON file
z-ai function \
  -n page_reader \
  -a '{"url": "https://news.example.com/article"}' \
  -o page_content.json

# Extract and save blog post
z-ai function \
  -n page_reader \
  -a '{"url": "https://blog.example.com/post/123"}' \
  -o blog_post.json

Common Use Cases

# Extract news article
z-ai function \
  -n page_reader \
  -a '{"url": "https://news.site.com/breaking-news"}' \
  -o news.json