Defuddle

• Defuddle: Get the main content of any page as Markdown.

  • JavaScript/TypeScript extractor that takes a URL or HTML, finds the main article body, strips chrome like comments, sidebars, headers, and footers, and returns cleaned HTML or Markdown—positioned as a more forgiving alternative to Mozilla’s Readability with richer metadata (including schema.org) and more consistent handling of footnotes, math, and code blocks.
  • Ships as an npm package with browser (defuddle), full (defuddle/full), and Node (defuddle/node with any Document implementation such as linkedom or JSDOM) entry points, plus a npx defuddle parse … CLI (--markdown, --json, --output, etc.).
  • Originated for the Obsidian Web Clipper extension but is documented as environment-agnostic; README marks the project as still a work in progress.