Webpage to Markdown Converter
Convert any webpage into Markdown — full page or main content only.
Powered by Geekflare Web Scraping API
What Is HTML to Markdown Conversion?
Markdown is a text format that represents headings, links, lists, and emphasis with simple symbols instead of HTML tags. Converting a webpage to Markdown strips out <div> soup, inline styles, tracking scripts, and layout markup. It is structured and human-readable text that's far cheaper to store, diff, and feed into AI models than raw HTML.
How This Tool Works
- Enter any public webpage URL.
- Choose Full page Markdown or Main content only.
- Click Convert to Markdown.
- Review word, character, and estimated token counts, then copy or download the
.mdfile.
Full Page vs. Main Content Only
| Mode | What You Get | Best For |
|---|---|---|
| Full page Markdown | Every section of the page converted, including navigation and footer links. | Archiving, documentation migration, preserving full page structure. |
| Main content only | Navigation, ads, cookie banners, and footers are filtered out — just the article body. | Feeding an LLM or RAG pipeline, note-taking, cleaner reading. |
Why Convert a Webpage to Markdown?
- LLM & RAG ingestion — Markdown uses roughly 50–60% fewer tokens than the raw HTML, which lowers embedding and context costs.
- Documentation migration — Move content between static site generators, wikis, or a Git-based docs repo without manual reformatting.
- Version control — Markdown diffs cleanly in Git, unlike HTML or a rendered screenshot.
- Notes and research — Save a readable copy of an article, spec, or changelog for offline reference.
Why Not Just Copy-Paste?
Copying text directly from a browser usually drags in inline styles, broken line breaks, and stray formatting that needs manual cleanup and it discards the page's link structure entirely. Geekflare tool preserves headings, lists, and links as proper Markdown syntax, and handles JavaScript-rendered pages that a simple "view source" copy can't.
Convert Pages at Scale
Converting one page at a time works for research, but if you need to convert hundreds of URLs, monitor pages for changes, or pipe content directly into your own app, use the Geekflare Web Scraping API directly. The same markdown and markdown-llm formats used by this tool are available with a free API key.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Converting a page in your browser is free and doesn't require an account. Bulk or automated conversion via the Geekflare Web Scraping API requires an API key.
Full page converts everything on the page, including navigation and footer links. Main content only strips out boilerplate (nav, ads, cookie banners) and returns just the article body.
Yes. The page is rendered with JavaScript enabled before conversion, so single-page apps and client-rendered sites convert correctly, not just static HTML.
This page converts one URL at a time. For bulk or scheduled conversion, call the Geekflare Web Scraping API with the same markdown or markdown-llm format.
Words and characters are exact counts of the converted Markdown. The token count is an estimate (~4 characters per token) to help gauge context-window or embedding costs.
Need this at scale? Try the Web Scraping API.
Get Markdown or main-content-only Markdown from any URL — the exact format this tool returns.
curl -X POST https://api.geekflare.com/webscraping \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url":"https://example.com","format":["markdown"]}'