AskPage CLI

Ask a web page a question from the terminal and get only the useful bits

Problem

Developers constantly need one small answer buried in a long page, and browser search or full-page scraping is clumsy. curl-style tools return raw HTML, while AI scrapers dump the whole page into context and waste tokens. Tools like jurl exist because people clearly want curl that actually reads the page.

Solution

A CLI that takes a URL plus a natural-language question, fetches and parses the page, and uses a local or BYOK model to return only the relevant paragraphs, code snippets, and links worth following. Plain text by default, structured JSON for piping.

Users

Developers and researchers who read docs, scrape references, and do frequent web research

MVP

One command accepting URL and question; fetch and clean main content, then extract with BYOK model; return paragraphs, code blocks, and ranked links; JSON output for pipelines; local cache and rate limiting; no-key demo mode

Revenue

Open-source core; Pro at $5-10/month for batch URLs, higher concurrency, and local model adapters

Why now

LLMs make on-demand extraction reliable while developers increasingly care about context cost; a CLI needs no hosted frontend and is maintainable by one person