Article Extraction Skill

Extract clean article text from web pages, removing ads, navigation, and clutter.

When to Use

• Content archiving
• Research collection
• Reading list management
• Content analysis

Core Capabilities

• Main content extraction
• Metadata extraction (title, author, date)
• Image extraction
• Clean HTML/Markdown output
• Multi-page article handling
• Paywall bypass (where legal)

Tools

# Readability (Node.js)
npm install @mozilla/readability

# newspaper3k (Python)
pip install newspaper3k
python -c "from newspaper import Article; a = Article('URL'); a.download(); a.parse(); print(a.text)"

# Trafilatura (Python)
pip install trafilatura
trafilatura -u "URL"

Best Practices

• Respect robots.txt
• Cache extracted content
• Preserve attribution
• Handle different CMS formats

Resources

• Readability: https://github.com/mozilla/readability
• newspaper3k: https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper