# Url

> Fetch and extract text from web URLs

- Skill: `axoviq-ai/url` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add axoviq-ai/url`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/axoviq-ai/url/raw
- Safety review: pending (external: skill-scanner PASS, skillspector PASS)
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- License: AGPL-3.0-or-later
- Author: axoviq-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/axoviq-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-09
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/axoviq-ai/url

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# 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`