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defuddle
Extract the main content of any web page as clean Markdown or HTML (Obsidian Web Clipper's engine). Use when you need article extraction in a Node/JS runtime, on math-heavy pages, when you want rich metadata (author, published date, schema.org), or as a quick CLI one-liner. The Python-side equivalent is trafilatura in the local-scrape skill.
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# defuddle
Article-extraction library by Stephan Ango (kepano, Obsidian CEO) — the engine
behind Obsidian Web Clipper. Takes a URL or HTML, finds the main content,
returns cleaned HTML or Markdown. A more forgiving Mozilla Readability
replacement: removes fewer uncertain elements, standardizes footnotes / code
blocks / math / callouts, and extracts rich metadata. MIT licensed.
Verified working in this environment 2026-09-30 via `npx defuddle`.
## When to use defuddle vs trafilatura
Default article extraction stays **trafilatura** (Python, in the `local-scrape`
skill). Reach for defuddle when: