What it does. 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. Part of kepano/obsidian-skills (Obsidian CLI and open formats) (kepano/obsidian-skills).

Install

• npx skills add kepano/obsidian-skills --skill defuddle, or copy the skill folder into ~/.claude/skills/defuddle/.
• Raw file: curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kepano/obsidian-skills/HEAD/skills/defuddle/SKILL.md

SKILL.md (verbatim)

name: defuddle
description: 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.

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

Back to kepano/obsidian-skills (Obsidian CLI and open formats) or Agent skills.