---
title: "Quickstart"
description: "Scrape a page, crawl a site and convert a document in a few commands."
---

These commands assume the `webfold` binary is on your `PATH`. Webfold has no public download yet, so see [Install](/docs/getting-started/install) for the status.

## 1. Scrape one page

```sh
webfold scrape https://example.com
webfold scrape https://example.com --json | jq '{bytes_markdown, blocks_content}'
```

Progress output goes to stderr. With `--json`, exactly one JSON object is written to stdout, so it pipes straight into `jq`.

## 2. Convert saved HTML, no network

```sh
webfold md saved-page.html
webfold scrape ./saved-page.html --json
```

## 3. Crawl a site and fold the chrome

```sh
webfold crawl https://example.com --max 50
WEBFOLD_EMIT=1 webfold crawl ./saved-site     # print the clean Markdown too
```

`crawl` takes a URL or a directory of saved HTML. It reads each page once, counts block signatures across the set, and reports how many blocks were shared template chrome rather than content.

## 4. Convert a document

```sh
webfold convert report.docx
webfold pdf report.pdf
webfold chunk report.pdf --size 4000 --jsonl
```

## 5. Search

```sh
webfold search "rust html to markdown" --count 10
webfold search "attention is all you need" --consensus --profile academic
```

## 6. Give an agent the same tools

```sh
./target/release/webfold-mcp     # stdio MCP server
```

Next: [Scraping and conversion](/docs/guides/scraping), [Crawling and indexing](/docs/guides/crawling), or the full [CLI reference](/docs/reference/cli).