Defuddle vs Rettiwt-API
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 your X feed, any user's timeline, or search results. No X API keys, no paywall.
- rating
- 4★
- tested
- ✓ loya-tested
- cost
- free
- install
- drop-in
- stars
- 822
- updated
- 8d ago
You need X data at scale — rettiwt uses a cookie session and rate-limits fast past a few hundred calls/hour.
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 · Rettiwt-API
rettiwt lets you pull tweets, timelines, feeds, replies, and search results from X without paying for API access. CLI or Node library. We run the daily X feed scan on this — the whole 'what's dropping today' pipeline starts here. Watch out: version 7.0.0 has a parser crash on User profiles that kills all feed/search/timeline endpoints. A one-line patch fixes it — re-apply after any upgrade. Free, MIT.