Web Fetch

Fetch any URL and save it to your device through conversation.

Fetch anything from a URL

Give Chalie a URL and it fetches whatever’s there and saves it to your device — a web page comes back as clean, readable markdown by default; any other kind of file goes straight to your downloads folder.

Getting started:

  • “Fetch this page and save it: [url]”
  • “Grab the PDF at that link and tell me what’s inside.”
  • “Download the dataset at this URL and tell me what columns it has.”

Web pages become markdown

Point Chalie at an article, a docs page, or any web page, and it strips away the surrounding clutter and saves the readable content as markdown — ready to search or reference again later. Ask for the same page a second time and Chalie re-fetches it, overwriting the saved copy with whatever’s live now.

  • “Fetch this article and save it: [url]”
  • “Grab that documentation page as markdown.”
  • “Save the recipe at this link.”

Want the original formatting instead? Ask Chalie to keep the raw HTML rather than convert it.

Everything else goes to your downloads

Any other file type — PDFs, images, spreadsheets, archives, installers — is saved straight to your downloads folder:

  • “Download the PDF at https://example.com/report.pdf and summarise it.”
  • “Grab that CSV and tell me what columns it has.”
  • “Download the latest release archive from that GitHub link.”

Reading what you fetched

Short pages — up to 20,000 characters — come back in the same reply, ready to use right away. Anything longer comes back as a saved file path instead. See the Files guide for how Chalie reads it back afterwards, a range of lines at a time, so nothing gets lost to a hard cutoff.

Limits

  • Files up to 100 MB can be fetched.
  • Fetches time out after 15 minutes by default, configurable up to 2 hours for large files.
  • Nothing is refused by policy — private and internal network addresses, and file:/data: URLs, are all reachable. A local-first assistant that can’t reach your own network would be refusing its most ordinary target; keeping it away from anything sensitive there is your call, not something Chalie restricts for you.

Privacy

Fetched pages and files are saved to your device. They are not uploaded to any external service unless you explicitly ask Chalie to use them with an external tool or send them somewhere.