Web Page Text Extractor

Most web pages wrap their real content in a thick shell of boilerplate — menus, ads, cookie banners, related-article widgets, and social buttons. This tool uses Defuddle, the same content-extraction engine behind the Obsidian Web Clipper, to find the main article and discard the rest.

Steps

1. Load: Paste a page URL — fetched through a public CORS proxy because browsers block direct cross-origin requests — or switch to the From HTML tab and paste raw source directly (handy for pages behind logins or paywalls you already have open).
2. Parse: The HTML is turned into a live DOM, then Defuddle scores every element to detect the primary content block and strip navigation, sidebars, ads, and other clutter.
3. Extract: Title, author, publication date, domain, and word count are pulled from the page metadata and shown alongside the cleaned article.
4. Copy: The clean content is converted to Markdown — ready to paste into notes, a CMS, or an LLM prompt — and you can preview the rendered result or download a .md file.

Privacy

Extraction and Markdown conversion all happen locally in your browser — utils.com never sees the page or its text. The only network request is the optional fetch of the URL through the CORS proxy; the From HTML tab makes no network requests at all.

You can embed this util on your own site as a widget. Adding ?embed=1 to the URL loads a compact version with just the tool itself; no header, menu, or documentation. Paste this snippet into your HTML:

Copy snippet Adjust the height to taste.