About MarkdownifyWeb

Why this exists

Feeding a web page to an AI assistant should be trivial, and it isn't. Pasting the URL frequently fails. Pasting the text drags in menus, cookie banners and advert slots that waste the model's context and confuse its reading of the page.

MarkdownifyWeb does one thing: it reads a public web page, keeps the part you actually wanted, and hands it back as Markdown. No account, no install, no configuration.

How it works

When you submit a URL, the server fetches that page and asks for Markdown first. A small but growing number of sites — those using Cloudflare's Markdown for Agents — will simply return it, and there is nothing left to do.

Everything else arrives as HTML. That HTML goes through Mozilla's Readability, the same open-source library behind Firefox's reader mode, which identifies the main content and discards the furniture around it. What survives is converted to GitHub-flavored Markdown by Turndown, preserving headings, lists, tables and fenced code blocks.

The result is counted with the same tokeniser modern GPT models use, so the number you see is a genuine estimate rather than a guess at character counts.

What it deliberately doesn't do

It does not try to defeat bot protection, and it does not bypass paywalls. Sites that refuse automated readers get a clear message saying so. That is a choice, not a limitation we are working around: an arms race against Cloudflare is one a small tool loses, and circumventing a publisher's paywall is not something we want to build.

It also does not render JavaScript. Pages that assemble themselves in the browser have nothing in their HTML to extract, and you will be told that rather than handed an empty result.

How it's paid for

The tool is free and supported by advertising on the surrounding pages. Adverts are never placed between the input box and the Copy button, and there are no popups, popunders, interstitials or redirects — the formats that pay best are precisely the ones that would make a tool like this unusable.

What we keep

Converted output sits in server memory for roughly fifteen minutes so that a repeat request for the same page is instant. It is not written to a database, not associated with you, and not used for anything else. There are no accounts, so there is no history to keep.