Defuddle Web Extractor
Pull clean, readable Markdown from web pages using the Defuddle command-line tool.
- Repository
- kepano/obsidian-skills
- Stars
- 50,606
- Licence
- MIT
- Files
- 1 file
What it does
When installed, the agent uses the Defuddle command-line tool to fetch a web page and strip out navigation, ads and other clutter, returning just the main readable text as Markdown. The skill tells the agent to prefer this over its built-in web fetching for ordinary articles and pages, which the authors say reduces token usage. It can also pull out specific details such as the page title, description or domain.
Great for
- Researchers who want the text of articles saved as clean notes
- Developers building pipelines that need readable page content
- Anyone who wants an agent to summarise or archive a web page without the surrounding clutter
Skip it if
- Pages that require a login or are behind a paywall, since the skill only describes fetching the public URL (reason: the file does not cover authentication)
- Heavily scripted single-page apps where the content loads after the page renders (reason: extraction depends on the HTML the tool receives, and the file gives no guidance for this case)
Try asking
- “Fetch https://example.com/article as clean Markdown and save it to notes.md”
- “Get the title and description of this web page”
- “Extract the main text of this blog post so you can summarise it”
Install in 3 steps
- 1
Download the skill
The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.
defuddle.zip - 2
Add it to your agent
Claude Code (all projects)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip defuddle.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)
mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip defuddle.zip -d .claude/skills/Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.
- 3
Ask for the task
No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.
Get better results
- Give the agent a full URL so it knows exactly which page to extract.
- Ask for --json output if you need both the HTML and the Markdown together.
- Check the saved file if the page is unusual, since automatic extraction can miss content.
What's inside
- SKILL.md
Redistributed unmodified from kepano/obsidian-skills under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.