Copy as Markdown

Right-click selected text to copy as Markdown format, or export it as a PDF

# Copy as Markdown Turn anything you can select in your browser into clean Markdown - no flipping to a viewer, no pasting into a converter website, no cleaning up afterwards. Right-click a selection, choose **Copy as Markdown**, and the Markdown is on your clipboard. Choose **Export as PDF** instead and the same selection opens as a tidy, print-ready document. ## Why another "copy as Markdown" extension? Most of them mangle anything that is not a paragraph. Copy as Markdown is built on [Turndown](https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown), the same converter used by some of the largest note-taking tools, with the GitHub Flavored Markdown plugin enabled - so the messy parts come out right. ## What it handles properly - **Code blocks keep their language.** Fences are read from `language-`, `lang-`, `highlight-source-` and `brush:` class names, plus `data-language` and `data-lang` attributes. If the code itself contains backticks, the surrounding fence grows automatically so the block is never broken. - **Everything GitHub understands.** Tables become pipe tables, task lists become `- [x]` items, and strikethrough uses the double-tilde form that every renderer accepts. - **Structure survives.** Nested and ordered lists keep their numbering and indentation, headings use `#` style, and block quotes stay block quotes. - **Links and images stay useful.** Relative URLs are resolved against the page you copied from, so they still work after you paste the Markdown into a note, a ticket or a README. - **Inline code is inline code.** A `<code>` element inside a paragraph no longer gets double-wrapped the way naive converters do it. - **Scripts and styles are dropped.** You get the text, not the page's plumbing. ## Export a selection as PDF Pick **Export as PDF** and the selection is converted to Markdown, rendered in a clean A4 layout, and handed to your browser's print dialog. Choose "Save as PDF" as the destination and you get a real vector PDF with selectable, searchable text - not a screenshot of your screen. - Page setup is A4 with sensible margins, and headings, tables, quotes and code blocks are styled for paper. - Long code lines wrap instead of being cut off at the edge of the page. - Images and web fonts are waited for before printing, so nothing comes out as a blank placeholder. ## Private by design - **No accounts, no sign-in, nothing to configure.** - **No network requests at all.** The extension never contacts any server; every library it uses is bundled inside it. - **No analytics, no tracking, no telemetry.** - **No page content is ever read outside of the moment you invoke it.** The content script only looks at your current selection when you click a context menu entry, and it does nothing at any other time. - **Nothing is written to disk.** The one piece of temporary data the extension needs - the Markdown it hands to its own print page - is deleted as soon as that page has rendered it. ## Works the same in both browsers The same code ships as a Manifest V3 build for Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers, and as a Manifest V2 build for Firefox. It also handles the common annoyance of right-clicking in a tab that was already open when the extension was installed: the extension injects its own content script on demand and just works. ## Third-party libraries Bundled locally, unmodified, all under the MIT licence: Turndown, turndown-plugin-gfm and marked.