content-rescue 🛟

Rescue your content from enshittified platforms. Own it as clean, git-committed, universal Markdown + local assets you control and republish.

Part of MOOLLM. Glance: GLANCE.yml · Interface: CARD.yml · Scripts: scripts/

Why

Platforms enshittify; your writing, images, and talks shouldn't be hostage to them. This skill repatriates your own content (and clearly public material — HN is still good) into local, diffable, universal Markdown + assets under version control. If it's not on git, it don't exist.

The core trick

The page may be walled; the asset CDN usually isn't.

A curl of a Medium article is often bot-walled to a ~5KB stub. But:

1. the image CDN (miro.medium.com) serves assets freely, and
2. the rendered page embeds window.__APOLLO_STATE__ — every image id + caption, in paragraph order, independent of lazy-loading.

So we extract the manifest from embedded page state in a real browser, then fetch assets directly from the open CDN. (Born from the 2026-06-27 Will-Wright rescue: 167 images pulled in order, captioned, and wired into the local transcript.)

Protocol

EXTRACT-MANIFEST FROM <url> [VIA browser]

When curl is walled, open the page in a real browser. The Cursor browser MCP is ideal headless:

• browser_navigate → the article,
• browser_cdp → Runtime.evaluate (returnByValue: true) running scripts/medium_extract_manifest.js (image block) → ordered index|id|caption lines; run the video block for embedded YouTube ids.

Save the image lines to manifest.psv. (Generic sites: derive id|caption from <figure>/srcset/JSON-LD, or put full asset URLs in column 2.)

FETCH-ASSETS FROM <manifest.psv> TO <dir>

python3 scripts/fetch_images.py manifest.psv images --source-url '<article url>'

Downloads each asset in order as NNN-slug.ext (extension auto-detected), and emits images/INDEX.md (a captioned, ordered gallery = an illustrated transcript) and images/map.tsv. Re-runnable (skips existing).

WIRE-MARKDOWN <text-capture> WITH <gallery>

Localize a text capture into clean universal Markdown:

• fix the "images omitted" placeholder; link the gallery (images/INDEX.md),
• inline figures at their caption anchors where the prose preserves them,
• collect embedded video links into a videos.md,
• keep provenance + third-party credits.

SCRAPE-HN <user|thread>

Harvest a user's HN comments/threads (HN's API/site are scrape-friendly) into YAML/Markdown capture files. (HN is one of the good ones — preserve, don't fight it.)

Ethics

• For the author's own content or clearly public material. Respect robots/ToS and others' copyright; credit third-party assets (the gallery caption carries it).
• Polite single-pass fetches; re-runnable so you don't hammer.

Roadmap (sibling skills, planned — see CARD.yml related_planned_skills)

• youtube — transcripts/STT/cleanup, speaker + section splitting, timecoded refs, ingest interviews → STT → cleanup, publish via the Data API.
• stream-deck — Twitch + OBS (and alternatives/plugins) screencast control + metadata.
• publish-sync — git-centric auto-publish + cross-service sync (YouTube/Twitch/GitHub) via GitHub Action workflows.

Part of MOOLLM

A standalone, publishable skill. Related: skills/card (a rescued page can become a CARD), skills/cursor-mirror (introspection sibling, same scripts/ pattern).