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Clean and extract the main body content from a webpage URL. Use this skill whenever the user asks to extract, scrape, or read the main article, text, or content from a webpage, especially if they mention wanting clean Markdown or text without ads and navigation.

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Web Content Extractor

This skill helps you extract the clean main content (body text/Markdown) from a webpage URL by using Defuddle or Jina AI's reader API.

How it works

To extract the content of a target URL, you will prepend a specific service URL to the target URL and fetch it. This converts the messy webpage into clean Markdown containing only the main content.

Available Services

  1. Defuddle (Default)

    • Format: https://defuddle.md/<target-url>
    • Example: https://defuddle.md/https://example.com/article
    • Use this as the primary method.

  2. Jina AI Reader (Fallback)

    • Format: https://r.jina.ai/<target-url>
    • Example: https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com/article
    • Use this if Defuddle fails or returns an error.

Execution Steps

  1. Identify the target URL: Extract the full URL the user wants to read from their request. Ensure it includes the protocol (e.g., https://).
  2. Construct the fetch URL: Prepend https://defuddle.md/ to the target URL.
  3. Fetch the content: Use the shell_execute tool with curl -sL "FETCH_URL" to download the content.
    • Example command: curl -sL "https://defuddle.md/https://example.com/article"
  4. Handle Fallbacks: If the curl command fails, returns empty, or returns an error message indicating failure, try the Jina AI service instead: curl -sL "https://r.jina.ai/https://example.com/article"
  5. Process the output: The output will be in Markdown format.
    • If the user asked you to read it to answer a question, use the content to answer.
    • If the user asked you to extract or save it, present the Markdown to them or save it to a file as requested.

Notes

  • Always enclose the URL in quotes in the curl command to prevent shell interpretation of special characters like & or ?.
  • If the target URL is missing http:// or https://, prepend https:// before appending it to the service URL.