obsidian-skills/

defuddle

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Extract clean markdown content from web pages using Defuddle CLI, removing clutter and navigation to save tokens. Use instead of WebFetch when the user provides a URL to read or analyze, for online documentation, articles, blog posts, or any standard web page. Do NOT use for URLs ending in .md — those are already markdown, use WebFetch directly.

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Defuddle

Use Defuddle CLI to extract clean readable content from web pages. Prefer over WebFetch for standard web pages — it removes navigation, ads, and clutter, reducing token usage.

If not installed: npm install -g defuddle

Usage

Always use --md for markdown output:

defuddle parse <url> --md

Save to file:

defuddle parse <url> --md -o content.md

Extract specific metadata:

defuddle parse <url> -p title
defuddle parse <url> -p description
defuddle parse <url> -p domain

Output formats

Flag	Format
`--md`	Markdown (default choice)
`--json`	JSON with both HTML and markdown
(none)	HTML
`-p <name>`	Specific metadata property

technical

github: kepano/obsidian-skills
stars: 25631
license: MIT
contributors: 12
last commit: 2026-04-02T17:21:56Z
file: skills/defuddle/SKILL.md