Defuddle vs Serper
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.
The cheapest way to query Google search + Maps at scale. ~$0.20 per 1,000 results.
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- 4★
- tested
- —
- cost
- paid
- install
- needs-wiring
- stars
- 0
- updated
- 4d ago
You want enriched contact data out-of-the-box — Outscraper handles that in one call.
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 · Serper
Serper is a hosted Google Search + Maps API at a pricing tier everyone else can't touch — about twenty cents per thousand queries. For any lead-gen pipeline that needs to sweep a city for local businesses, this is the cheapest raw data source on the market. No filters, no enrichment — just fast, cheap Google results you process yourself. Pair with Outscraper or a custom enrichment step if you need emails + phones downstream.