HTML to Markdown Converter
Turn web pages and HTML snippets into clean, readable Markdown.
Convert your document
Converted on our serverHow it works
- Paste HTML or choose a filePaste up to 2 MB of HTML, or upload an .html file.
- Agree and convertConfirm the upload and press Convert.
- Copy or downloadCopy the Markdown from the page, or download the .md file.
Supported formats
Any of these can be converted into any other. Old .doc files and PDFs are not supported.
About this tool
Moving content out of an old website, a CMS export or an HTML email? Paste the HTML or upload a saved .html file, and you get GitHub-flavoured Markdown that is easy to read and edit: headings, paragraphs, emphasis, links, lists, tables, code and images.
Scripts, styles and layout wrappers such as div and span tags are dropped, so you are left with the content. Images keep their links, and a table with merged cells stays as an HTML table so nothing in it is lost. The conversion runs on our server with Pandoc after you agree to the upload, and nothing is kept afterwards.
Questions people ask
Can I convert a page by its address?
What happens to menus and footers?
Which Markdown flavour do I get?
Getting clean Markdown from HTML
Paste the article, not the page
Menus, sidebars and footers come across too. Copy just the main content for the cleanest Markdown.
Make links absolute
Links such as /about stay relative. Replace them with full addresses if the Markdown will live on another site.
Watch embedded images
Images built into the HTML as data stay in the Markdown as very long lines. Save them as files and link to them if people will edit the Markdown by hand.
HTML vs Markdown
| HTML | Markdown | |
|---|---|---|
| Full name | HyperText Markup Language, the format of web pages | Markdown plain-text formatting (GitHub flavour) |
| Formatting it keeps | Headings, lists, links, tables and images; the look comes from CSS | Headings, bold and italic, lists, links, images, tables and code; no fonts or page layout |
| Best for | Publishing on the web and pasting into website editors | README files, documentation, notes apps and static websites |
| Works with | Every web browser, content management system and email editor | GitHub, GitLab, Obsidian, Notion, Jekyll, Hugo and any text editor |