URL

URL is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by axoviq-ai in synthadoc.

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Install URL

Copy URL into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/axoviq-ai/synthadoc/tree/main/synthadoc/skills/url ~/.claude/skills/url

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/axoviq-ai/synthadoc.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: synthadoc/skills/url/SKILL.md in axoviq-ai/synthadoc
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/url
Collection: One of 10 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What URL does

URL fetches web pages and extracts clean body text from HTML or PDF URLs. Use it when a source is a web address and you need readable text for downstream processing.

URL is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. URL comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agentic-ai, cli-tool, domain-adaptation and enterprise.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about URL

What else does axoviq-ai publish alongside URL?
URL is one of 10 skills that DirSkills catalogs from axoviq-ai/synthadoc, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include DOCX, Image and Markdown. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way URL does, and is maintained by axoviq-ai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the axoviq-ai/synthadoc page.
How does URL compare to other Automation skills?
URL ranks #836 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of URL against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.