webpage-reader

webpage-reader is a skill for Claude Code from ericgandrade/claude-superskills. It costs 76 tokens per session (2,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A web-page reader that extracts the main text from a URL and presents it as clean Markdown, a simple text format. It removes menus, advertisements, sidebars, footers, and cookie notices.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to read documentation, articles, blog posts, research papers, or release notes from a web address.
Why use it?
It prevents useful information from being buried in navigation and other page clutter when reading online content.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-superskills plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to read documentation, articles, blog posts, research papers, or release notes from a web address.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add ericgandrade/claude-superskills --skill webpage-reader
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericgandrade/claude-superskills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-superskills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for webpage-reader

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for webpage-reader

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ericgandrade/claude-superskills/webpage-reader.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,742 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00076 $0.02742
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.01371
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00548
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00274

Measured 9d ago against content hash 9ec95783cbb9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

webpage-reader scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/webpage-reader/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

This skill extracts clean, readable Markdown from any web page URL by stripping navigation menus, advertisements, sidebars, footers, cookie banners, and all other non-content elements. It produces token-efficient output that focuses exclusively on the meaningful content of the page.

When agents fetch web pages using standard tools, the raw output often includes hundreds of navigation links, promotional widgets, and boilerplate text that consume tokens without adding value. This skill eliminates that noise using Defuddle, a purpose-built content extraction tool, to isolate the article body, documentation text, or main content and return only what matters.

The skill gracefully degrades when Defuddle is not installed: it offers to install it automatically or falls back to standard web fetching with a clear note about the trade-off in output quality and token usage.

This is a universal skill — it works in any project, any terminal context, and does not require Obsidian or any specific project structure.

When to Use

Invoke this skill when:

  • The user provides a URL and asks to "read", "fetch", "extract", or "get the content" of a page
  • The user wants to analyze online documentation, API references, or technical guides
  • The user shares a blog post, article, or research paper URL and needs the body content
  • The user wants to save web content to a local Markdown file for offline reference or notes
  • The agent needs to reference external content during a research or writing workflow
  • The user asks to clean up or strip the noise from a page before reading it
  • Multiple URLs are provided for batch processing in a research session

Do NOT use this skill when:

  • The URL ends in .md — those files are already Markdown, use WebFetch directly instead
  • The URL points to a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, or binary file — use docling-converter instead
  • The user needs a multi-source research synthesis with citations — use deep-research instead
  • The user needs to interact with the page (forms, logins, JavaScript-heavy apps)
  • The URL requires authentication that the agent cannot provide
  • The user asks to summarize a YouTube video — use youtube-summarizer instead

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 268 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A 9ec95783cbb9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

webpage-reader is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericgandrade/claude-superskills (74 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 2,742 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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