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
pip install httpx beautifulsoup4
# Optional — needed only if you ingest PDF URLs:
pip install pypdf pdfminer.six
Standalone usage
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:
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://orhttp:// - User intent contains:
fetch url,web page,website