Can this skill bypass paywalls?

No, the skill generally only accesses publicly available content. If a site requires a login or has a hard paywall, the extraction tool will likely fail.

How are the extracted files named?

The skill automatically attempts to find the article title from the webpage metadata, sanitizes it for filesystem compatibility, and saves it as a .txt file.

Which tools does the Article Extractor use?

The skill prioritizes Mozilla's Readability (reader-cli) and Trafilatura, but includes a native Python fallback if those specific tools are not installed.

What happens to the images in the article?

This skill is designed for text-centric extraction to provide clean data; it focuses on text, headings, and structure rather than downloading media files.

Article Extractor

Name: Article Extractor
Author: tolgaio

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Web Scraping & Data Collection

Extracts clean, readable text from web articles and blog posts by removing ads, navigation, and clutter.

About

The Article Extractor skill enables Claude to transform cluttered web pages into distraction-free text files. Using sophisticated algorithms like Mozilla's Readability and Trafilatura, it identifies the core content of a page while stripping away advertisements, newsletter popups, and navigation menus. This is an essential tool for developers and researchers who need to archive tutorials, analyze blog posts, or feed clean data into other local workflows without the noise of the modern web.

Key Features

Intelligent clutter removal including ads, sidebars, and popups
Real-time content previews before final saving
Multi-tool support using Reader, Trafilatura, or Python fallbacks
0 GitHub stars
Automatic metadata extraction for smart file naming
Structured text output that preserves headings and paragraphs

Use Cases

Extracting clean text from blog posts to use as context for AI tasks
Converting news articles into distraction-free reading formats
Downloading technical tutorials for offline reference or local indexing

About

Key Features

Intelligent clutter removal including ads, sidebars, and popups
Real-time content previews before final saving
Multi-tool support using Reader, Trafilatura, or Python fallbacks
0 GitHub stars
Automatic metadata extraction for smart file naming
Structured text output that preserves headings and paragraphs

Use Cases

Extracting clean text from blog posts to use as context for AI tasks
Converting news articles into distraction-free reading formats
Downloading technical tutorials for offline reference or local indexing