How the conversion works
Clean Copy Web parses your pasted markup with the browser's own HTML parser, walks the resulting document tree and emits standard Markdown:
- Headings h1–h6 become
#–###### - Links and images become
[text](url)and - Lists — including nested ones — keep correct indentation and markers
- Bold, italics, inline code map to
**…**,_…_, backticks - Code blocks and blockquotes become fenced blocks and
>quotes - Tables become GitHub-flavored pipe tables
- Junk is stripped: scripts, styles, hidden spans, tracking pixels, smart quotes cleaned up
The same engine powers the Clean Copy browser extension, so web page and extension produce identical output. Have a full URL instead of raw HTML? Use the free URL to Markdown converter (dansk version) — it fetches the page and extracts the main content for you.
Why client-side matters
Privacy by architecture
Server-based converters see everything you paste — contracts, internal docs, personal notes. Clean Copy Web has no upload step at all: the conversion runs in your tab, offline-capable once loaded.
Instant results
No round-trip to a server. Paste, convert, copy back — in under a second even for large documents.
Free, no account
Unlimited conversions, no sign-up, no watermarks, no daily caps.
Related: HTML to Markdown API
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