# Url

Fetch and extract text from web URLs

- Repository: https://github.com/axoviq-ai/synthadoc (1725 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: yes, review before use

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add axoviq-ai/synthadoc --skill url -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add axoviq-ai/synthadoc --skill url -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add axoviq-ai/synthadoc --skill url -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add axoviq-ai/synthadoc --skill url -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Fetch and extract text from web URLs

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# URL Skill

Fetches a web URL using `httpx`, strips navigation/script/style tags with
`BeautifulSoup`, and returns clean body text. PDF URLs are extracted with
`pypdf` (primary) and `pdfminer.six` (fallback).

## Setup

```bash
pip install httpx beautifulsoup4

# Optional, needed only if you ingest PDF URLs:
pip install pypdf pdfminer.six
```

## Standalone usage

```python
import asyncio
from synthadoc.skills.url.scripts.main import UrlSkill

skill = UrlSkill()

async def main():
    result = await skill.extract("https://example.com/article")
    print(result.text)          # clean body text
    print(result.metadata)      # {"url": "https://..."}

asyncio.run(main())
```

`DomainBlockedException` is raised when the site returns HTTP 401, 403, or
429. Catch it to log and skip the domain:

```python
from synthadoc.skills.base import DomainBlockedException

try:
    result = await skill.extract(url)
except DomainBlockedException as e:
    print(f"Blocked: {e.domain} (HTTP {e.status_code})")
```

## When this skill is used

- Source starts with `https://` or `http://`
- User intent contains: `fetch url`, `web page`, `website`