Plain Markdown
Convert any webpage into clean Markdown with one click
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About Plain Markdown
Plain Markdown allows you to instantly transform any webpage or text selection into clean, readable Markdown format. It prioritizes your privacy with a local-first approach. You can convert content without worrying about logins, servers, or tracking. It is a streamlined tool designed for users who need to capture web content for documentation, notes, or publishing without the clutter of HTML or external processing.
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Plain Markdown is a privacy-focused tool that converts web content into Markdown format via a local-first web platform, API, or MCP server. Recent updates have expanded its utility to include AI-driven actions and direct exports to third-party knowledge bases.
- Local-first approach ensures privacy without requiring logins or server-side tracking.
- Integrated MCP server allows AI agents like Claude to fetch and process web content directly.
- Native export support for popular productivity tools including Notion, Obsidian, and Readwise.
- Robust API available for developers to integrate Markdown conversion into custom workflows.
Ideal for: Developers, technical writers, and content creators can benefit from this tool for seamless documentation and note-taking across different platforms.
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Product Updates (2)
Better extraction, Run AI Prompts and Export to Notion/Obsididan/..
We've made significant improvements since: - NEW: AI Actions on any extracted page - NEW: Export to Notion/Obsidan/Readwise - Fixed: Conversion on SPA pages like the PlayStore
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API and MCP server
A full blown API is added that provides the same pipeline quality as the extension at plainmarkdown.com/api Without pricing yet on the table, the free tier has generous rate limits. This means: 1. You can create an API key and use the API in your tooling right away 2. You can use the provided MCP server for integration with your AI agents (e.g now Claude can use both web_fetch and PlainMarkdown as a tool when needed). Folks asked for this and I wanted to support a production grade quality API. I hope this will help you in day-to-day research.
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One-click webpage to Markdown conversion is incredibly handy for note-taking, RAG pipelines, and content repurposing. Removing the noisy HTML and getting clean structured text is a real productivity win.
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How does it handle paywalled content or sites with heavy JS rendering? Does it capture what's visible in DOM or something deeper?
@ashishdurgude The API (URL to MD) worked on JS heavy sites, paywall and had bot-bypass too. I disabled it recently since monetizing it wasn't easy next to big players in this field. Now only extension prevails until I see demand for API.
All the best
Great
Interesting product. What does your marketing strategy look like? Specifically, which channels do you use to reach your customers?
@lukaswallentin Reddit - we need more reddit lead finder apps (at least one per week)
Simple but effective - useful for turning long articles into markdown and read them without distractions later.
Really useful tool. Installed and tested — thanks for sharing!
Love this tool, free, easy to install and just works. Well done for a useful tool
@sunoarchitect Thank you. I'll be adding a Premium version (at a reasonable LT deal) soon, with Image extraction, customization and text manipulation via BYOK (instead of a subscription).
Updates: We now have an equivalent API that achieves the same conversion, so that you can use it in agentic workflows day-to-day. Currently in early access (public beta) available via: https://plainmarkdown.com/api/
Hey man, congrats was looking for something like this.
@agrkushal I'm genuinely happy you like this. A reliable api.plainmarkdown.com/docs will soon be published in early access for direct agentic integration use cases, also I'm adding settings page plus new goodies to the extension 🍻
Super interesting, congrats on the launch!
@bethoneplace Thank you! 🥰 Website updated with priorities and goodies coming soon (next version).
Awesome is there an api to use?
@asupkay1124 I'm hearing more need for this, will add API consumption for the same quality by the EOW.
@asupkay1124 https://plainmarkdown.com/api/
..also a Live editor is included. I hope this can help you in further research day-to-day.
Correction: I meant to say "without the noise". There are many ways to capture markdown today, and many of them require more involvement, this one doesn't. You can basically pop open a side-panel to keep it sticky while scrolling.
Hello well this is a free product with a clear and simple use case: Convert a webpage to Markdown with the noise. I wanted a clear and simple one-click solution so there it is now.