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Convert HTML to Markdown

Powered by turndown. Strips tags into clean, readable Markdown with configurable heading and bullet styles.

HTML → Markdown
HTML
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Markdown
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Parser
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Style
atx · -
config
HeadingBullet
input · html
output · markdown
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Quick Start

How to convert HTML to Markdown

Uses turndown — the de-facto HTML→MD converter with GFM extensions.

  1. 01

    Paste HTML

    Whole pages or snippets. Inline styles are dropped automatically.

    Parsing runs through marked with GFM extensions enabled — tables, task lists, strikethrough, and fenced code blocks all match GitHub’s rendering.

    htmlGFMmarkedCommonMarklive
    input · markdownhtml · GFM
    <h1>Hi</h1>
    loaded · GFMGFM · ready
  2. 02

    Pick style

    ATX (#) vs Setext (===) headings. Bullet marker -, *, or +.

    Soft-break behaviour is configurable: by default a single newline becomes a space (CommonMark), toggle on for chat-style <br> insertion.

    stylesoft-breaksoptionsconfiglive
    style · optionsATX - · live
    # heading
- item
    options applied · livelive
  3. 03

    Live Markdown

    Output updates instantly. Strikethrough via GFM rule.

    The preview is scoped under a .mde class so its CSS doesn’t bleed into the rest of the page. Output HTML is whitespace-controlled for clean diffs.

    livepreviewscoped CSSrenderstable
    out · renderedmd · ready
    # Title
**bold**
    rendered · liverendered
  4. 04

    Copy or save

    Copy to clipboard or download as .md / .txt.

    Export covers both raw Markdown and rendered HTML; downloads stream as text/markdown or text/html via Blob + object URL.

    exportclipboard.md.htmlblob
    ✓ · exportedmd · done
    ✓ Copied MD
    shipped · ready to shipsuccess
Pro tips

Author Markdown that renders everywhere

GFM is the safe default

GitHub-Flavored Markdown is the de-facto baseline (tables, task lists, strikethrough). CommonMark is stricter but ubiquitous as a fallback.

Soft-break behaviour varies

A single newline is a space in CommonMark, a <br> in GFM. Toggle soft breaks when source matters.

Escape inside code fences

Backticks inside fenced blocks need a longer fence — three becomes four. Use ~~~ if your content has many backticks.

Anchors are slugified

GitHub lowercases, strips punctuation, and joins with hyphens. Duplicate headings get -1, -2 suffixes.

Tables need a header row

The dash row sets alignment (:---, :-:, ---:). Use Table Aligner for diff-friendly columns.

Front matter is YAML

Triple-dash blocks at the top of files are parsed by static-site generators. Use the Front-Matter Validator to catch syntax errors.

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Use Cases

When to convert HTML to Markdown

Migration, archival, content scraping.

CMS migration

Move WordPress posts to a Markdown-based SSG. Render path uses marked with GFM extensions enabled (tables, task lists, strikethrough, autolinks), so what you preview matches what GitHub publishes bit-for-bit. Soft-break behaviour is configurable for chat-style vs prose Markdown.

GFM-compliant

Knowledge base

Convert HTML help docs to Markdown source. Pairs cleanly with the Markdown Cheatsheet for syntax you can't quite remember — callout blocks, footnotes, definition lists. Output stays diff-friendly so style-only changes don't drown out real edits in PRs.

GitHub-perfect

Web scraping cleanup

Strip scraped HTML to readable text. Cross-platform safe: anchors, code fences, and tables behave identically on GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Gitea. Heading-anchor slugs follow GitHub's lowercase-and-hyphenate rules so deep links survive a docs migration.

diff-friendly

Archive emails

Long-form HTML emails → searchable MD. No server roundtrip — perfect for proprietary content you can't paste into a public tool. The full marked + GFM bundle ships with the page, so it works offline once loaded.

render-stable

Note-taking

Save web clippings as MD in Obsidian/Logseq. Front matter (YAML / TOML / JSON) passes through unchanged so static-site pipelines (Jekyll, Hugo, Astro, Eleventy) read it correctly. Pair with the Front-Matter Validator to catch syntax errors before deploy.

cross-platform

AI prompts

Feed cleaner text to LLMs. Output is reproducible: identical input always produces identical Markdown, so doc-generation scripts can rely on it for snapshot tests and embedded into release workflows.

SEO-friendly
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

turndown — the most widely used HTML → MD library, with GFM extensions for strikethrough.
Stripped automatically. Only text + structural tags survive.
Basic table support — for complex tables use the dedicated HTML Table to Markdown tool.
Dropped. Markdown can't represent them losslessly.
No. Conversion runs entirely locally.
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