Defuddle vs Outscraper
Both in the data & scraping category. Side-by-side — pick the one that fits your stack tonight.
Any web page → clean markdown. No nav, no ads, no sidebar junk.
- rating
- 5★
- tested
- ✓ loya-tested
- cost
- free
- install
- drop-in
- stars
- 6,977
- issues
- 28
- license
- MIT
- updated
- 4d ago
You need the raw HTML or page layout — defuddle throws away everything except the article body.
Pull businesses without websites from Google Maps + enrich emails/phones in one API call.
- rating
- 3★
- tested
- —
- cost
- freemium
- install
- needs-wiring
- stars
- 0
- updated
- 4d ago
You don't need enriched contact data — use Serper alone if you just want names + addresses.
why it matters · Defuddle
Point defuddle at any URL and get back the main article content as clean markdown — no nav, no ads, no sidebar, no cookie banners. Strip down pages before feeding them to Claude so you're not burning tokens on menus and footer links. Use this daily instead of WebFetch when reading articles or docs — token cost drops 60-80%, signal-to-noise goes up. Built by kepano (Obsidian team). Free, MIT.
why it matters · Outscraper
Outscraper is a hosted Google Maps + business-data API. The differentiator: server-side filter for 'website:false' which instantly hands you a clean list of local businesses missing a website — the exact lead-gen segment for an AI landing-page agency. Plus email + phone enrichment baked in. Alternative to Serper (cheaper per lead but no enrichment) and Apify (similar filter, 2.5x more expensive). Worth a 30-min trial run on one vertical + one city before committing.