MarkSnip - Markdown Web Clipper
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A web clipper to download articles in markdown format. Turndown & Readability are used as core libraries.
# MarkSnip - Markdown Web Clipper
Save any webpage as clean, formatted Markdown with one click. MarkSnip is a powerful web clipper for Chrome that converts articles, documentation, code snippets, and more into well-structured Markdown files - perfect for Obsidian, Notion, LLMs, and personal knowledge bases.
## Why MarkSnip?
Whether you're a developer saving API docs, a researcher collecting papers, or a student building a knowledge base, MarkSnip gives you clean Markdown every time - no manual cleanup required.
## Key Features
- **One-Click Clipping**: Save full pages or selected text as `.md` files instantly
- **Smart Article Extraction**: Powered by Mozilla's Readability.js for clean, distraction-free content
- **Accurate HTML → Markdown**: Turndown-powered conversion handles complex pages reliably
- **Code Block Preservation**: Detects and formats code fences with proper language tags
- **Pretty-Printed Tables**: Converts HTML tables into clean, aligned Markdown tables
- **Image Downloading**: Save images alongside your Markdown files with flexible naming options
- **Obsidian Integration**: Send clips directly to your Obsidian vault via the Advanced URI plugin
- **Batch Export**: Download all open tabs as separate Markdown files in one action
- **Custom Templates**: Add front matter and back matter to every clip automatically
- **Dark Mode**: Full dark mode support
- **Context Menu**: Right-click any page, selection, link, or image for quick Markdown actions
## Perfect For
- **Developers**: Save API documentation, GitHub READMEs, and Stack Overflow answers with code formatting intact — ready to paste into ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor
- **Researchers**: Archive academic articles, papers, and data tables with structure preserved
- **Students**: Build study guides from course materials, tutorials, and online resources
- **Writers**: Collect reference material, save published pieces, and organize content briefs
- **Knowledge Workers**: Feed clean content into Obsidian, Notion, or any PKM system
- **Data Analysts**: Save data schemas, SQL references, and documentation with table formatting
## Keyboard Shortcuts
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| Alt+Shift+M | Open MarkSnip popup |
| Alt+Shift+D | Download page as Markdown |
| Alt+Shift+C | Copy page as Markdown |
| Alt+Shift+L | Copy page URL as Markdown link |
## Obsidian Integration
1. Install the [Advanced Obsidian URI](https://vinzent03.github.io/obsidian-advanced-uri/) plugin
2. Configure your vault in MarkSnip's options
3. Use "Copy to Obsidian" from the context menu or keyboard shortcut
## Powered By
- [Readability.js](https://github.com/mozilla/readability) — content extraction
- [Turndown](https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown) — HTML to Markdown
- [highlight.js](https://highlightjs.org/) — code language detection
- [CodeMirror](https://codemirror.net/) — Markdown editor
## Open Source
MarkSnip is open source (MIT license) and forked from the excellent [MarkDownload](https://github.com/deathau/markdownload/) by deathau, updated to Manifest V3 with many additional features and improvements.
Source: https://github.com/DhruvParikh1/markdownload-extension-updated
Issues & feedback: https://github.com/DhruvParikh1/markdownload-extension-updated/issues
Latest reviews
- Mia Lai
- Huge improvement to my workflow! Everyone should donate a coffee (in the settings) to keep the extension free!
- Kostya Ryabov
- It's a best. BUT - every md file generation call deadlock website that I need to reload browser.
- David Swanson
- I've been using MarkDownload for years. Maybe close to a decade now. But, it drives me insane. I moved from Joplin to VSCode to handle all my projects. I'm in VSCode all day programming. I figure, why not create a workspace folder and then under the workspace a folder for each of my notebooks. That way I can sync each notebook to their own repo, or S3 bucket with git using AWS opensource git-remote-s3 cli helper tool. That way, if I want to share a "notebook", I can easily share a notebook with sharing ALL my notebooks. But..., the MarkDownload clipper was HORRIBLE at clipping code blocks (Fenced Code). If I was on DigitalOcean docs and wanted to clip an article, it would create a Fenced Code but leave off the language and would add lots of html for styling. Ex., ``` <ol><li data-prefix="$"><span class="token function">sudo</span> <mark>command_to_run</mark> </li></ol> ``` Where as MarkSnip does it perfectly. Ex., with the same code block on Digital Ocean article. Ex., ```bash sudo command_to_run ``` It works perfect. To the developers and contributors of the forked MarkSnip... THANK YOU! Thank you for your hard work and your time that you put into this extension. And also to the original Developers that started MarkDownload. 🙌
- King Flipper
- I've installed this extension to download AI chats in markdown, but one thing I've noticed right out of the gate is that if there are multiple prompts and answers in a single thread, the extension only grabs the last instance of the entire chat. Everything that came before it is missing. I've mistakenly deleted all of those threads after downloading them thinking they were good.
- Keev studio
- I was just making it myself, but you've already done a great job. Thank you.
- Ray Wok
- Hi Dhruv, Thanks for the excellent extension. Using: BRAVE browser with Ubuntu LINUX 20.04 and MarkSnip - Markdown Web Clipper version 3.8.0. Problem with converted Links: When choosing to convert " ENTIRE DOCUMENT ", all text and links are converted to MD correctly. Great! but... When choosing to convert " SELECTED TEXT ", all text is converted to MD correctly but the links in the highlighted selection are wrong. Each converted URL seems to also include the Title of the webpage in every link... (?) Please do try it with this test page: https://www.mathsisfun.com/physics/electromagnetic-spectrum.html and SELECT the text and links in the " RANGES " section only... See? converted selection text is OK but all converted Markdown links are wrong... (btw: I have not changed any Settings in the extension....) Mystery... help Dhruv! RAY San Francisco.
- yt l
- hope this plugin can support the recognition of formulas in LaTeX and code blocks !!
- Jon Schlottig
- About as good as it gets for what it's designed to do.
- Aghiles Chougar
- Excellent Works very well for downloading my tuto pages, better than previous version where code blocks where broken
- Donald Coates
- Markdownload was one of my most used extensions. Thank you so very much for this wonderful update.
- Carvier
- Very good. Thank you for supporting MarkDownload in this way
- beuzbeuz78
- Hi, Can't "Send Tab to Obisdian" and 'Send text selection to Obsidian" :do nothing ! It work well with the Original Markdown Web Clipper.... Any idea ? Thanks
- Louie Daniels
- Just amazing and useful extension i have found online.
- Vikram Gupta
- Just amazing but developers should also include dark mode!
- Alex so yes
- AMAZING to feed LLMs, you rock 😍
- D B
- source code link on github in description would avoid searching through all the credited originial reposition forks. I seems to have been overlooked in the otherwise very good description here. Thanks for making a v3 version of this, or is it v4, waiting for v-infinity. https://github.com/DhruvParikh1/markdownload-extension-updated Is this the proper link?
- Ali Demi
- I am all for markdown and tried many sorts of clippers and this one, wow, has been fantastic so far. exactly does what I want it to do.
- aarti verma
- It is good but it need some changes and updates.
- Kokila Canber
- awesome!!