URL to Markdown
Paste a link, get clean Markdown ready for LLMs, RAG pipelines and notes. 13 sites get a dedicated parser that returns the post, thread or profile — not the menus around it.
Three steps, one request
Paste a public URL
Articles, docs, forum threads, social posts, repositories, video pages — anything reachable without logging in.
The right parser runs
Known sites go to a dedicated parser; everything else gets readability extraction with a browser fallback for JavaScript-heavy pages.
Copy or download Markdown
Headings, lists, links, tables and code blocks are preserved. Paste it into a prompt, a vector store or your notes.
A Reddit link should return the thread, not the navigation
- Menus, footers and cookie banners mixed into the text
- Login walls returned as the “content”
- Comments flattened or missing
- No author, date or score fields
- Only the post, profile or page body
- Comment trees kept in order with authors
- Site metadata as structured fields
- Same output through the REST API and MCP
Generic converters give you the page. These give you the content.
For these sites the converter switches to a parser built for the site’s own structure, returning Markdown plus fields like author, date and engagement counts. Each is verified per URL pattern, not claimed per domain.
Frequently asked questions
Is the URL to Markdown converter free?
Yes. You can convert 10 URLs a day without an account. A free Search1API account adds 100 credits; each conversion costs one credit.
Which websites have a dedicated parser?
LinkedIn, Reddit, X (Twitter), YouTube, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Hugging Face, WeChat articles, Hacker News, npm, PyPI, Bilibili and CSDN. Each site page lists the exact URL patterns it supports.
What happens with other websites?
Every other public page goes through generic extraction: the main content is isolated from navigation and converted to Markdown, with a headless-browser fallback for pages that render with JavaScript.
Can it read pages behind a login or paywall?
No. The converter only reads what a logged-out visitor can see. Pages that require an account return little or no content.
Why convert web pages to Markdown for LLMs?
Markdown keeps the document structure — headings, lists, tables, links — while dropping HTML noise, so prompts use fewer tokens and chunking for RAG follows real section boundaries.
Can I convert URLs in bulk or from code?
Yes. The same conversion is the Search1API /crawl endpoint, available over REST, an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and other agents, and a CLI.
Convert thousands of URLs from code
This page runs on the Search1API /crawl endpoint. Call it over REST or connect the MCP server to your agent — new accounts start with 100 free credits.