# Webpage to Markdown Converter Fetch a live web page by URL and convert it to clean Markdown — headings, links, lists, code and optionally images and tables — with reader-mode junk stripping. > Canonical page: https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/webpage-to-markdown-converter - **Category:** Format Conversion - **Keywords:** website to markdown, webpage to markdown, url to markdown, html to markdown, page to markdown converter, scrape to markdown, llm ready markdown ## Overview Paste a page URL and get Markdown back, the way you would for feeding LLMs, static-site mirrors, or note-taking apps. The server fetches the page over HTTPS with a hard timeout and size cap, follows at most three redirects (re-validating every hop against private-address blocking), then parses the HTML. Reader mode strips script/style/noscript, navigation, headers/footers, asides, forms, iframes and comment nodes before conversion, keeping just the main content. Turndown then renders headings (ATX), links, emphasis, fenced code blocks and lists; toggle images and tables on or off, and absolutize relative links against the page URL so the Markdown works anywhere. The report keeps the page title, description and canonical URL in metadata. Fetch failures, non-HTML responses and private/loopback URLs are rejected with clear messages rather than a stack trace. ## Inputs - **Page URL** (text): https://example.com/article - **Reader mode (strip nav, scripts, forms)** (checkbox) - **Include images** (checkbox) - **Include tables** (checkbox) - **Absolute links** (checkbox) ## When to use - Preparing clean article or documentation text to feed into LLM prompts or RAG pipelines. - Archiving web tutorials, technical blogs, or reference materials into Markdown-based personal knowledge bases. - Migrating online content into static site generators without manually rewriting HTML markup. ## How it works - The tool accepts a public URL and fetches the HTML over HTTPS, following up to three redirects while validating against private IP addresses. - Reader mode cleans the document tree by stripping scripts, styles, forms, navigation headers, footers, sidebars, and comments. - The remaining HTML is converted to ATX headings, lists, links, emphasis, and fenced code blocks, with optional support for tables and images. - Relative URLs are resolved to absolute web addresses so all hyperlinks remain functional outside the original site. ## Use cases - Converting technical documentation into fenced code blocks and structured Markdown for LLM analysis. - Scraping news articles or blog posts into cleanly formatted Markdown notes for Obsidian or Notion. - Extracting tabular data and body text from public reports for easy plaintext editing. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can I convert pages hosted on private or local network addresses? No. The converter blocks private and loopback IP addresses for security reasons. ### What elements does Reader mode strip out? It removes navigation menus, headers, footers, sidebars, scripts, styles, iframes, forms, and HTML comments. ### How are relative links handled during conversion? When the absolute links option is enabled, relative paths are automatically converted to full absolute URLs based on the source page. ### Are images included by default? No, image inclusion is disabled by default but can be toggled on if you want Markdown image tags preserved. ### How many redirects can the fetcher follow? The fetcher follows a maximum of three redirects, re-validating the target URL at each hop. ## Related tools - [Data URI Generator](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/data-uri-generator): Convert files into Data URIs (Base64 or percent-encoded) for inlining images, fonts, and assets directly into HTML, CSS, or Markdown - [PDF Header/Footer Snippets](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/pdf-header-footer-snippets): Convert HTML to PDF with reusable logo, title, and date snippets - [Image Palette to Design Tokens](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/image-to-design-tokens): Extract a dominant color palette from an image (k-means clustering), then export it as CSS variables, SCSS variables, a Tailwind config, or JSON design tokens — with named colors and an auto-generated shade scale for each - [QR Code Decoder](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/qr-code-decoder): Decode QR codes from images and extract the contained text or URLs - [AI Image to Markdown](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/ai-image-to-markdown): Extract text from images and convert to markdown format using AI vision models - [Markdown to Plain Text](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/markdown-to-plain-text): Convert Markdown formatted text to plain text by removing all Markdown syntax and formatting - [HTML to Markdown Converter](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/html-to-markdown): Convert HTML content to Markdown format with customizable options using Turndown - [Image Color Extractor](https://elysiatools.com/en/tools/image-color-extractor): Extract dominant colors from images using various algorithms including k-means clustering and histogram analysis ## Samples - [Markdown Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/markdown-samples): Markdown format examples from simple to complex document structures - [Markdown Viewer Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/markdown-viewer-samples): Sample Markdown files for README preview, documentation rendering, and rich-text markup tests - [Markdown Slide Deck Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/md-slide-deck-to-pdf): Remark/Marp style Markdown slide decks for testing PDF export layouts - [PDF Samples](https://elysiatools.com/en/samples/pdf-samples): Generated PDF samples from tools dated 2026-02-01 to 2026-02-10