How is URL to Markdown different from pasting HTML?

With HTML to Markdown you already have the markup and paste it in. Here you only have a link: dochost fetches the page’s HTML on the server first (so cross-origin pages work without CORS errors), then converts that HTML to Markdown. The conversion itself is the same GitHub-flavored engine.

Does it run JavaScript on the page before converting?

No. It fetches the page’s server-rendered HTML and converts that. For most articles, blogs and docs that is the full content. Pages that build their body entirely with client-side JavaScript may come across thin, because the text is not in the initial HTML.

Which pages can it fetch?

Any public http or https page that returns HTML. Pages behind a login, on a private network, or at a local address are not reachable — the fetch is blocked for anything that is not a public web URL.

Does it keep tables and code blocks?

Yes. HTML tables become GitHub-flavored pipe tables, and / blocks become fenced code blocks. Headings, lists, links and blockquotes are preserved; scripts and styles are dropped.

URL to Markdown converter

Paste any web page URL and get clean, GitHub-flavored Markdown back — headings, links, lists and tables intact, ready for your notes or repo.

Fetch any public web page and convert it to clean Markdown — copy it or publish it as a link.

Markdown appears here.

Converted — share it as a page.

Publish this Markdown as a live page in one click. No account to start.

Sometimes the source you want is already on the web — a blog post, a docs page, a wiki article — and you need it as Markdown, not as a browser tab. Copy-pasting from the rendered page loses the structure: headings flatten, links drop their targets, and tables turn into tab-separated mush. This tool takes the other path. You paste the page’s URL, dochost fetches the live HTML for you, and the markup is converted to clean GitHub-flavored Markdown — the same url to markdown job people reach for when feeding a page into an LLM, an Obsidian vault, or a static-site repo. The fetch happens server-side so there is no CORS wall to fight, and the conversion keeps headings, ordered and unordered lists, inline links, blockquotes, code blocks and tables.

How URL to Markdown works

1. Paste the full page URL into the field above (a bare domain like example.com works too — we add https:// for you).
2. Press Convert. dochost fetches the page HTML on the server, then converts it to Markdown in your browser, so you see the result in a second or two.
3. Copy the Markdown, download it as a .md file, or hit Publish to host the converted page at its own shareable link.

A real example

A researcher is building a prompt library and wants three published articles as Markdown so they can paste them into a model’s context window without all the navigation chrome and ad markup. Saving each page and running a script would mean wiring up a fetcher and a converter just for a one-off. Instead they grab the first article’s URL, paste it in, and press Convert. The right pane fills with Markdown: the <h1> becomes a single top heading, the section subheads become ##, the inline citations stay as [text](url) links, and the one comparison table comes across as a pipe table. They copy it, drop it into their notes, and repeat for the other two URLs — three clean Markdown documents in under a minute, with no script to maintain and nothing scraped beyond the single page they asked for.

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How URL to Markdown works

1. Paste the full page URL into the field above (a bare domain like example.com works too — we add https:// for you).

2. Press Convert. dochost fetches the page HTML on the server, then converts it to Markdown in your browser, so you see the result in a second or two.

3. Copy the Markdown, download it as a .md file, or hit Publish to host the converted page at its own shareable link.

A real example