Defuddle

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Open-source HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability

Features

• A tool that removes unnecessary elements (comments, sidebars, headers, footers, etc.) from a web page, leaving only the main content
• Works more flexibly than Mozilla Readability and supports consistent HTML standardization of math, code blocks, footnotes, and more
• Developed for Obsidian Web Clipper, and aims for compatibility with other HTML-to-Markdown conversion tools (such as Turndown)
• Built-in extraction of various metadata, such as mobile styles and schema.org data
• Supports both Node.js and the browser, with several bundles to choose from depending on the use case

See also

• Markdown
• Readability

Favorite site

• Github - kepano/defuddle
• Defuddle - Open-source HTML-to-Markdown alternative to Readability | GeekNews
• defuddle - Extracts any web page to Markdown | GeekNews