Afdian Content Downloader

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Retrieve and read Afdian author posts and albums offline via MCP protocol.

• 2

  Query and search downloaded Afdian content without requiring live web access or cookies.

• 3

  Access Afdian shop product information and metadata in Markdown format.

Description

AfdianToMarkdown is a command-line tool and MCP server that crawls and downloads author posts, albums, and shop items from afdian.com, saving them as Markdown files. It supports incremental updates, filtering by tags, and can run as a local or remote MCP server to enable AI assistants like Claude Desktop to query the downloaded content. This facilitates offline, privacy-preserving AI knowledge retrieval from Afdian author data without requiring direct web access or cookies in MCP mode.