RustBrowser cuts web pages down to save AI tokens
RustBrowser is an open-source tool that turns web pages into clean Markdown for AI tools. It says this can cut tokens by 75% to 98% compared with raw HTML. That can help AI agents read the web with lower cost and less wasted input.
Key points
- It removes clutter from HTML and keeps the useful page content in Markdown.
- Lower tokens can mean lower LLM costs when many pages are processed.
- It offers a CLI and MCP server, so it can fit into automation and AI agent workflows.
Quick term guide
- open-source
- Software whose code is shared publicly so others can inspect, use, or change it.
- Markdown
- A simple text format for headings, lists, links, and other basic document structure.
- AI tools
- Software that can help create text, code, images, or other work.
- AI agents
- AI agents are AI tools that can carry out steps toward a goal, not just answer once.
- AI agent
- An AI program that can inspect information and suggest what to do next.
- MCP server
- A server that helps AI tools connect to outside services in a standard way.
- automation
- A way to make repeated work happen without doing every step by hand.
- agent workflow
- A set of steps an AI follows automatically to complete a series of tasks in order.