btw_tool_web_read_url: Tool: Read a Web Page as Markdown

In btw: A Toolkit for Connecting R and Large Language Models

Tool: Read a Web Page as Markdown

Description

Tool: Read a Web Page as Markdown

Usage

btw_tool_web_read_url(url, `_intent` = "")

Arguments

url	The URL of the web page to read.
_intent	An optional string describing the intent of the tool use. When the tool is used by an LLM, the model will use this argument to explain why it called the tool.

Details

You can control the maximum time to wait for the page to load by setting the btw.max_wait_for_page_load_s option globally in your R session.

Value

Returns a BtwWebPageResult object that inherits from ellmer::ContentToolResult containing the markdown content of the web page.

See Also

Other Tools: btw_tool_docs_package_news(), btw_tool_env_describe_data_frame(), btw_tool_env_describe_environment(), btw_tool_files_code_search(), btw_tool_files_list_files(), btw_tool_files_read_text_file(), btw_tool_files_write_text_file(), btw_tool_ide_read_current_editor(), btw_tool_package_docs, btw_tool_search_packages(), btw_tool_session_package_info(), btw_tool_session_platform_info(), btw_tools()

Examples

btw_tool_web_read_url("https://www.r-project.org/")
btw_tool_web_read_url(
  "https://posit.co/blog/easy-tool-calls-with-ellmer-and-chatlas/"
)

btw documentation built on Nov. 5, 2025, 7:45 p.m.