HTML To Markdown Converter

Markdown is the format everything reads now: README files, wikis, issue trackers, notes apps and the box you type into when you talk to an AI assistant. Web pages are not written in it. This html to markdown converter takes the markup you already have - a blog post, a documentation section, a chunk copied out of your browser's inspector - and gives you Markdown you can paste somewhere useful.

Who it is for

• You are moving web copy into a CMS, a static site or a README and do not want to retype it.
• You are archiving a page as plain text that will still be readable in ten years.
• You need to convert html to markdown for a documentation import, where tables and code blocks have to survive.
• You want to feed a page to a language model and would rather send clean text than a wall of markup.

How it works

Everything runs in your browser. The HTML is parsed into a document that is never attached to this page, so nothing in it runs: no scripts execute, no images or stylesheets load, and no tracking pixel fires. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you press publish.

The conversion follows GitHub-flavoured Markdown, so tables, strikethrough and task lists come through properly rather than being flattened into paragraphs - that is where thinner converters fall over. Two switches decide what gets converted at all. Strip scripts, styles and comments removes the code that would otherwise land in your text as a block of minified JavaScript. Main content only looks for a <main> or <article> element, and if the page has neither, scores every block by how much prose it holds against how much link text it carries, then converts the winner. That is how a whole web page to markdown conversion comes back as the post instead of the post plus the menu, the sidebar and the cookie banner.

Limits

Anything Markdown cannot express is either kept as inline HTML or dropped: layout divs, classes, iframes, forms and video embeds. Images keep their src exactly as written, so relative paths such as /img/hero.png will not resolve once the Markdown lives somewhere else - fix those by hand. The main-content guess is a heuristic, not magic; if it takes the wrong block, turn the switch off and convert everything. Going the other way is the Markdown to HTML converter, and the HTML formatter will indent messy input so you can see what you are pasting.

From Markdown to a live page

Publish puts the converted Markdown on a page of its own, on a live HTTPS link, so you can send it to whoever asked for it. It needs no account, the link lasts 30 minutes on its own, and claiming it to keep it is free. Instant publishes are capped at 5 MB, and custom domains are available on the paid plans. See how it works for the rest.