Use case
Convert a Medium article to Markdown
Turn a Medium post into clean Markdown for your notes or your AI chat — and what to expect from member-only stories.
Medium posts convert well when they are public. The platform's article markup is clean and Readability handles it neatly: headings, pull quotes, code blocks and embedded images all survive.
Member-only stories are a different matter. Medium returns a preview and a paywall rather than the article, and that is what any automated reader sees — including this one.
Mixed results
Public posts convert reliably. Member-only stories return a paywall message — we don't attempt to get around it. If you are a member, copy the story from your logged-in tab and paste it in.
Step by step
- Open the post and copy its URL.
- Paste it into the converter and press Convert.
- Turn on Clean if you want the prose without the header images.
- Copy the Markdown, or download it as a .md file for Obsidian or Notion.
Worth knowing
- Custom domains on Medium (many company blogs run on it) convert just the same — paste the address as it appears.
- Medium's own suggested-reading footer is stripped automatically, so you get the article rather than the recommendations.
- Downloading as .md gives you a file that drops straight into an Obsidian vault with its formatting intact.
Questions
- Will code blocks keep their formatting?
- Yes. Code is emitted as fenced Markdown blocks, and the language is preserved when Medium recorded one, so syntax highlighting still works wherever you paste it.
- What happens to Medium's embedded tweets and gists?
- Embeds become links rather than rendered content — there is no way to represent an interactive embed in Markdown. Turn on Clean to drop them entirely.