Defuddle

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.

by kepano

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Natural-language prompt you can paste into any Claude conversation. Claude Code installs it to ~/.claude/skills/defuddle/; claude.ai and Claude Desktop adopt it for the current chat and tell you how to save it permanently.

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curl -fsSL https://spellbook.build/i/defuddle | bash

Drops the file into ~/.claude/skills/defuddle/SKILL.md. The script is plain shell — inspect it by dropping the | bash.

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A defuddle/ folder with SKILL.md (and any supporting files) — unzip into ~/.claude/skills/.

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---
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:

```bash
defuddle parse <url> --md
```

Save to file:

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

Extract specific metadata:

```bash
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 |

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