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    kepano/defuddle

    Get the main content of any page as Markdown.

    cli
    frontend
    documentation
    defuddle
    html
    markdown
    md
    obsidian
    TypeScript
    MIT
    9.9K stars
    460 forks
    9.9K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 12 days ago, with 43 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Extracts and cleans the main content from web pages, outputting it as Markdown or standardized HTML.
    • Provides consistent, forgiving content extraction with enhanced metadata and math support, improving on alternatives like Mozilla Readability.
    • Use for converting web articles into clean Markdown for note-taking apps like Obsidian.
    • Use for building CLI tools that scrape and summarize web content with metadata extraction.
    • Use for server-side Node.js applications that require reliable extraction of readable content from dynamic or client-rendered pages.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present

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    From the README

    de·​fud·dle /diˈfʌdl/ transitive verb to remove unnecessary elements from a web page, and make it easily readable.

    Beware! Defuddle is very much a work in progress!

    Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages. It cleans up web pages by removing clutter like comments, sidebars, headers, footers, and other non-essential elements, leaving only the primary content.

    Defuddle aims to output clean and consistent HTML documents. It was written for Obsidian Web Clipper with the goal of creating a more useful input for HTML-to-Markdown converters like Turndown.

    Excerpt from the kepano/defuddle README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    460+76

    Open issues

    129+64

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