2025#
de·fud·dle /diˈfʌdl/ transitive verb
to remove unnecessary elements from a web page, and make it easily readable.
Inspired by my work on Obsidian Web Clipper I created Defuddle, an open source library to replace Mozilla’s Readability in my projects. Defuddle extracts the main content from web pages. It’s a bit more forgiving and tunable to my preferences.
Notably, Defuddle uses a website’s mobile styles to find unnecessary elements that can be removed from the page.
npm install defuddle
Usage#
import { Defuddle } from 'defuddle';
const article = new Defuddle(document).parse();
// Use the extracted content and metadata
console.log(article.content);
console.log(article.title);