Visit Website Reworked for LM Studio

An upgraded website-reading plugin for LM Studio with stronger reliability on modern websites, better diagnostics, and graceful fallback behavior.

Tools

Visit Website: fetches and returns key page data (title, headings, links, images, text content).
Download Images: downloads remote image URLs (or extracts from a page) and makes them viewable in the chat.

What was problematic before

The previous implementation worked on simple pages, but had major issues on real-world websites:

Hard failures on many websites (403, 401, 429, 503) with no recovery path.
Frequent anti-bot/WAF blocks (Cloudflare-like pages) ended in immediate tool failure.
Weak network resilience (no retry logic for transient failures).
Low-visibility errors (Forbidden) with almost no context for debugging.
Poor behavior on JS-heavy / WAF-protected pages where HTML extraction was insufficient.
Image extraction often missed lazy-loaded attributes (data-src, srcset, etc.).
Fallback content via r.jina.ai could contain useful markdown image links, but those were not previously extracted as images.
Tool naming/semantics caused orchestration confusion in some model flows.

What is improved in this reworked version

Reliability and fallback

Added retry logic for direct page fetches.
Added automatic fallback via r.jina.ai when direct fetch is blocked or fails.
Added block/challenge detection for common anti-bot scenarios.
Added broader image extraction support:

Better observability

Visit Website now returns fetch metadata:
- source (direct or jina)

Request quality tuning

Header strategy adjusted to reduce unnecessary bot-triggering patterns.
Keeps ranking/selection behavior, while making extraction resilient to modern page patterns.

Download Images behavior

Tool renamed from View Images to Download Images to better reflect function intent.
Intended usage is now explicit: remote HTTP(S) image URLs or websiteURL.
Supports normalization of image references (including markdown links and local paths) to reduce parser/tool-call failures in practical assistant workflows.

Installation

1-Click installation from LM Studio Hub:

vadimfedenko/visit-website-reworked

Just click Run in LM Studio.

Configuration

You can tune:

Max Links
Max Images
Max Content

Use 0 to exclude a section, or -1 for auto defaults where supported. Don't forget to allow LLM to call the tool.

Usage

Ask the assistant to open a URL and extract page information.
For blocked pages, the plugin now attempts fallback automatically and reports fetch source.

Works great with Analyze Images and Duck-Duck-Go Reworked

LLM can use DuckDuckGo Reworked to find relevant URLs, then Visit Website to extract structured page content and images. Then view the content of the images via Analyze.

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