Use case
Convert a news article to Markdown for AI
Strip a news story down to its text so you can summarise, translate or fact-check it with ChatGPT or Claude.
News pages carry more furniture than almost anything else on the web: newsletter prompts, related-story rails, video autoplay, consent banners. Readability removes all of it and leaves the reporting.
Whether the fetch succeeds varies by publisher. Independent outlets and most wire services convert without trouble; large publishers behind aggressive bot protection often refuse.
Mixed results
Varies by publisher. Paywalled and bot-protected outlets return a clear message rather than a partial article; copying the page from your own browser handles those.
Step by step
- Copy the article URL.
- Paste it into the converter and press Convert.
- Turn on Clean to drop photographs and video embeds.
- Copy the result and ask your AI to summarise it, or to identify the claims that would need checking.
Worth knowing
- Converting two outlets' coverage of the same story and pasting both is a quick way to see where accounts diverge.
- Turn Links off — news articles are heavy with internal links that cost tokens and tell the model nothing.
- The token count is worth a glance before pasting a long investigation into a chat.
Questions
- Will this get me past a paywall?
- No. If the publisher returns a subscription wall, that is what the converter receives, and it will tell you so.
- Are photo captions kept?
- Yes, unless you turn on Clean, which removes images and their captions together.