Web2Md Chrome Extension

Get a markdown version of any webpage with a keyboard shortcut.¹

Installation

Follow these steps to load an unpacked extension. Select the root of this repository as the extension directory.

Usage

1. Open a webpage
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+O (or Cmd+Shift+O on macOS) to trigger the extension
3. The contents of the page will be converted to markdown and copied to your clipboard

You will get a notification in the upper right corner of the screen that looks like this:

Changing The Keyboard Shortcut

To change the keyboard shortcut, open Chrome's extensions page, click on the "Manage" button for this extension, click on "Keyboard shortcuts", and change the shortcut from "Ctrl+Shift+O" to whatever you'd like.

You can also modify the manifest.json file to change the shortcut. Look for the commands section.

Demo

This is a demo of the extension in action:

web2md.mp4

Footnotes

1. Uses web2md.answer.ai to convert the contents of the current page to markdown. ↩