CLI for crawling documentation sites into Markdown with defuddle
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HN · launched Jun 3, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: web scraping tools and apis · 172 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▲ +9% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes A documentation crawler CLI that traverses sitemaps, downloads pages, and converts HTML to Markdown using existing libraries (like defuddle/turndown) is a classic weekend AI coding project.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 557 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #470 of 558 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 215 days after the earliest competitor.
- Markdown to PDF CLI Tool · hn · 2026-07-04 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.67
- Sygal · hn · 2026-10-15 · 46 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- muse_cli · github · 2026-10-29 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Pdf2md · hn · 2026-05-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Stash · hn · 2026-01-06 · 75 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Md2docx · hn · 2026-11-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Editxr · hn · 2026-06-11 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Reverse-engineer any site's API from inside the browser · hn · 2026-03-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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