defuddle

name	defuddle
description	Use this skill when the user wants to extract the main content from a web page or HTML file and convert it to clean Markdown or structured JSON with metadata.

defuddle Plugin

Extract the main content of any web page as clean Markdown. CLI tool for parsing URLs and HTML files with structured metadata extraction.

Commands

Web Content Extraction

• defuddle web parse — Parse a URL or HTML file and extract the main content

Utility

• defuddle self version — Print defuddle version
• defuddle _ _ — Passthrough to defuddle CLI

Usage Examples

• "Extract the article content from this URL"
• "Convert this HTML file to Markdown"
• "Get the title and author from a web page"
• "Save the extracted content to a file"

Installation

npm install -g defuddle

Or use without installing:

npx defuddle parse https://example.com

Examples

# Parse a URL and output as Markdown
defuddle web parse https://example.com/article --markdown

# Parse a local HTML file
defuddle web parse page.html

# Output as JSON with metadata (title, author, content, etc.)
defuddle web parse https://example.com --json

# Extract only the title
defuddle web parse https://example.com --property title

# Extract only the author
defuddle web parse https://example.com -p author

# Save output to a file
defuddle web parse https://example.com --output article.md --markdown


defuddle web parse https://example.com --debug


defuddle web parse https://example.com --lang fr


defuddle web parse https://example.com -m -o result.md