Topic · Knowledge Management
Best web clipping and read-later skills for Claude Code, Codex and other agents.
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Web clipping and read-later skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.Defuddle Uses the Defuddle CLI to pull clean, readable Markdown, JSON or metadata from web pages, stripping navigation, ads and clutter to save tokens. | kepano/ | 49k | 11 repos | ~208 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 22 days ago |
| 2 | Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using Chrome CDP. An agent skill from sdyckjq-lab/llm-wiki-skill. | sdyckjq-lab/ | 2.5k | 2 repos | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 3 | Saves tweets, threads and X Articles as Markdown files with YAML front matter, using an unofficial API that asks for your consent first. | JimLiu/ | 26k | 4 repos | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 4 | Fetches web pages and PDFs and returns a source-grounded summary, clean Markdown, quotes or citations, routing each kind of link to a suitable fetch method. | tw93/ | 7.2k | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 5 | Fetches a web page, X post, YouTube transcript or Hacker News thread through a Chrome-driven CLI and saves it as clean markdown. | JimLiu/ | 26k | 1 repo | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 6 | Converts a URL or PDF into clean Markdown, with dedicated routes for WeChat articles, Feishu docs, arXiv papers and login-gated pages, before any summary or rewrite. | joeseesun/ | 508 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 7 | Analyzes, deduplicates, reorganizes and exports browser bookmarks from an exported HTML or JSON file, and can build a local bookmark navigation site. | ricocc/ | 139 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 8 | 8.Papr Rss Read, search and triage the user's Papr RSS subscriptions from the shell via the papr CLI. | l0ng-ai/ | 539 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 14 days ago |
| 9 | Plans, and with explicit network consent runs, an external Defuddle extractor that turns an article-like HTTPS page into clean Markdown for later wiki ingestion. | AgriciDaniel/ | 15k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 10 | Convert a web URL into cleaned Markdown with deterministic routing. | rookie-ricardo/ | 935 | — | ~894 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 11 | Fetch any URL and convert to markdown using Chrome CDP. An agent skill from freestylefly/canghe-skills. | freestylefly/ | 461 | 4 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 4 mo ago |
| 12 | Fetches a web page through a 9Router server's web fetch endpoint and returns it as markdown, plain text or HTML, using one of several extraction providers. | decolua/ | 30k | — | ~941 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 days ago |
| 13 | 13.Defuddle Extract clean article content from web pages or local HTML files. | joeseesun/ | 112 | — | ~816 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 14 | Finds GitHub projects mentioned in articles or screenshots and stars them, tracks updates to your starred repos, and builds an HTML dashboard to browse them. | cat-xierluo/ | 713 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 15 | Web取得の標準前処理レイヤー。URL・公式ドキュメント・ブログ・ニュース・OSSページを読むときは、原則として毎回このSkillでDefuddleを使い本文をMarkdown/JSON化してから読む。生HTMLのまま要約・分析・比較・レビューしない。トリガー例: URLを読む/Webページ要約/OSS調査/公式Doc確認/記事解析/競合サイト確認/Web一次情報確認。 | cloudnative-co/ | 151 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 16 | Pulls a Xiaohongshu post's text, image text and video subtitles or transcript into a Markdown note saved in an Obsidian folder, in Chinese. | chenxiachan/ | 421 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 17 | Archives links a user sends into a profile's Obsidian-style vault with a save script and replies with a one-word confirmation instead of a summary. | dodo-reach/ | 142 | — | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 4 mo ago |
| 18 | Builds importable JSON templates for the Obsidian Web Clipper by checking your Bases, analyzing a sample page and drafting the template. | davila7/ | 32k | 6 repos | ~632 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 19 | Converts web pages, articles and documentation links into clean Markdown through the read_url tool, which sends the full URL to the third-party Jina Reader service. | HKUDS/ | 35k | — | ~627 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 20 | Fetch URL → markdown / text / HTML via KeiRouter /v1/web/fetch using Firecrawl / Jina Reader / Tavily Extract / Exa Contents. | mydisha/ | 147 | — | ~741 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 26 days ago |
| 21 | Robust URL-to-Markdown extraction for OpenClaw workflows. An agent skill from aAAaqwq/AGI-Super-Team. | aAAaqwq/ | 105 | 1 repo | ~650 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 10 days ago |
| 22 | Checks RSS and Atom feeds for new posts with Python's feedparser: reading one feed, combining several, filtering by keyword, finding a site's feed URL and saving results. | taracodlabs/ | 849 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 24 days ago |
| 23 | Write a letter to the people you love, to be read later — the things you'd want them to know, the stories only you hold, the permission and the love that outlive you. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | 24.Jina Reader Web content extraction via Jina AI Reader API. An agent skill from majiayu000/claude-skill-registry. | majiayu000/ | 666 | 1 repo | ~645 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 25 | 获取干净、可读的网页正文内容，适合现代网页、博客、新闻、公告和微信公众号文章抓取；支持网页正文提取、内容清洗、去噪、Markdown 输出，适用于普通 fetch 效果不佳、页面噪音较多或动态渲染干扰的场景。Clean content fetch for modern web pages, article extraction, WeChat article capture, content… | LeoYeAI/ | 2.2k | — | ~574 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best web clipping and read-later skill?
Defuddle from kepano/obsidian-skills ranks first of the 25 web clipping and read-later skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 49k GitHub stars, 11 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 208 tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Baoyu URL To Markdown and X to Markdown Converter.
Which web clipping and read-later skills are official?
None yet. All 25 web clipping and read-later skills listed here come from community repositories; a skill counts as official when the product's own GitHub organization publishes it.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.