How to convert a web page (URL) to Markdown

Saving an article as clean Markdown — no ads, no sidebars, no styling — is one of the most useful things you can do for a notes vault or a research file. URL to Markdown converts a page's content into Markdown entirely in your browser.

The browser-only reality (and why it's a feature)

A page running in your browser can't freely fetch another site's HTML — the web's CORS security model blocks it, which is what stops random pages from reading your logged-in sessions elsewhere. That's a good rule, and it shapes how this tool works: rather than secretly fetching pages server-side (where your reading would pass through someone else's machine), it converts HTML you provide. Your browsing stays private.

The trick that always works: paste the HTML

When a direct fetch is blocked, this path never fails:

1. Open the page you want to save.
2. View its source (right-click → View Page Source, or copy the article region).
3. Paste that HTML into the tool.
4. Get clean Markdown back — headings, paragraphs, links, lists, and code, with the site's chrome stripped away.

It's two extra clicks, and it works on any page, including ones behind a login that a server-side fetcher could never reach.

What you get

The conversion behaves like a focused HTML to Markdown pass: it keeps the content and structure (headings, body text, links, lists, quotes, code) and discards navigation, styling, scripts, and ads. The result is the article, and only the article.

Where it fits

• Building a research archive of sources as plain, searchable Markdown.
• Saving documentation into a personal wiki or Obsidian vault.
• Repurposing your own published posts back into editable Markdown.

A note on respect: convert pages for your own reading, research, and archiving, and honor each site's terms and copyright when you reuse the text.

Paste the page, get the article, keep it forever in the simplest possible format.