HTML to Markdown Converter

How it works

What we check

• Main content extraction — We target the page's <main> or <article> element first, falling back to the body. That keeps the actual content and drops the wrapper, so the Markdown reads like the article rather than the whole template.
• Headings (# through ######) — Every <h1>–<h6> becomes the matching number of # characters, so your document outline survives the conversion intact — useful for content audits and for feeding structured context to AI tools.
• Links, lists, and emphasis — Anchors become [text](url) with the real href preserved. Unordered lists become - bullets, ordered lists become 1. 2. 3., and <strong>/<b> and <em>/<i> become **bold** and *italic*.
• Images, blockquotes, and code — Images convert to  keeping the alt text and source. Blockquotes become > lines, and <pre>/<code> blocks are wrapped in fenced ``` code blocks so formatting and indentation stay readable.
• Clutter removal — Scripts, styles, noscript blocks, navigation, headers, footers, forms, and inline SVG are dropped. What's left is the prose, structure, and media — not the menus, cookie banners, and tracking tags.
• Conversion summary — We report the word count, number of headings, and number of links in the output so you can sanity-check that the real content came through before you reuse it.
• Downloadable .md file — The full Markdown is delivered as a page.md download (the on-screen preview is truncated for long pages, but the file is complete) so you can drop it straight into a repo, docs folder, or knowledge base.

Common issues we catch

• Pasting raw HTML into an AI tool wastes context — Feeding an LLM a full HTML page burns its context window on tags, inline styles, and scripts it has to ignore. Clean Markdown is dramatically more compact and readable, so the model spends its attention on your actual content.
• Copy-paste from the browser brings hidden formatting — Selecting text in a browser and pasting it into a CMS often drags along inline styles, span soup, and broken links. Markdown is plain text with explicit, portable formatting — it pastes cleanly into almost any editor.
• JavaScript-rendered content may not appear — We convert the HTML the server returns. If a page builds its content client-side with JavaScript (single-page apps, some React/Vue sites), that content isn't in the raw HTML, so it won't be in the Markdown. Server-rendered and traditional pages convert fully.
• Login or paywall walls block the fetch — We can only convert what's publicly reachable. Pages behind a login, a paywall, or an aggressive bot-block may return an error or a sparse stub instead of the real content.
• Tables and complex layouts simplify — The converter focuses on the core block elements — headings, paragraphs, lists, links, images, quotes, and code. Heavily nested tables or grid layouts may flatten into plain text rather than reconstructing as Markdown tables. Spot-check the output for data-heavy pages.
• Relative image and link paths — Links and images carry whatever href or src the page used. If a page uses relative paths (like /images/photo.png), those stay relative in the Markdown — prefix them with the site's domain if you need the links to resolve from somewhere else.
• Preview looks cut off but the file is complete — For long pages the on-screen Markdown preview is truncated for readability, which can look like content went missing. It didn't — the downloaded .md file contains the full conversion.

Where this matters

• AI & LLM tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity) — Markdown is the format these models read most cleanly. Pasting a converted page (or attaching the .md) gives the model the headings, links, and prose without the HTML noise — ideal for summarizing, Q&A, or building a knowledge base or RAG source.
• CMS & blogging platforms (WordPress, Ghost, Notion) — Most modern editors import or accept Markdown directly. Convert an existing page and paste it in to migrate or repurpose content without rebuilding the formatting by hand.
• Static-site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, MkDocs, Docusaurus) — These run on Markdown files. Download the .md, drop it into your content folder, add front matter, and you've imported a page — handy for moving content into a docs site or a Git-based blog.
• Content audits & archiving — Markdown is plain text, diff-friendly, and version-control-ready. Convert pages to compare structure, track changes over time, or keep a lightweight archive that doesn't depend on a live site or a database.
• Documentation & READMEs — Pull reference content off a web page and into a repo's docs or README in seconds. The fenced code blocks and heading structure carry over, so technical content stays readable.