defuddle-skill

defuddle-skill

A Claude Code skill that wraps defuddle — extract clean article content from web pages, removing ads, sidebars, and clutter.

Install

Option 1: npx (recommended)

npx defuddle-skill

This will:

1. Install defuddle CLI globally (if not already installed)
2. Copy the skill to ~/.claude/skills/defuddle/

Option 2: Vercel Skills CLI

npx skills add joeseesun/defuddle-skill

Option 3: Manual

git clone https://github.com/joeseesun/defuddle-skill.git
cd defuddle-skill
bash install.sh

What it does

Once installed, Claude Code can automatically extract clean content from any URL:

• Triggers: "defuddle", "extract article", "clean this page", "get content from URL"
• Output: Clean Markdown or JSON with metadata (title, author, date, word count)

Usage examples

Ask Claude Code:

Extract the article from https://example.com/blog-post

defuddle this page and give me the markdown: https://example.com/article

Get the title and author from https://example.com/post

CLI Reference

The skill uses defuddle CLI under the hood:

defuddle parse <url-or-file> [options]

Options:
  -m, --markdown         Convert to Markdown
  -j, --json             Output as JSON with metadata
  -o, --output <file>    Save to file
  -p, --property <name>  Extract single field (title, author, published, etc.)
  --debug                Verbose logging

Credits

• defuddle by @kepano — the core extraction engine
• Built for Claude Code by Anthropic

License

MIT