Copy any web page as clean Markdown or plain text.

Or paste what you already copied

Copy a table, a code block or part of an article on any page, then paste it here. It is the same converter as above, running in this tab, and the result is Markdown you can paste straight into Obsidian, a README, a ticket or an email.

What it does

Select text on a page, right-click, choose Copy as Markdown or Copy as clean text. Or press Ctrl+Shift+C. The same converter runs in the terminal:

$ curl -sL https://example.com/article | clean-copy
# Article title

Paragraphs come out as paragraphs. Links become [text](url), headings keep
their level, code blocks are fenced, and tables become pipe tables with the
original column alignment.

$ clean-copy --url https://example.com/docs --text > docs.txt

Markdown that matches the page

Headings, lists, links, images, bold and italic, fenced code blocks with language tags, tables with alignment, ordered lists that keep their start number.

Typographic clean-up

Curly quotes become straight quotes, non-breaking spaces become spaces, zero-width and other invisible characters are dropped.

Plain-text mode

When you only want the words: no Markdown syntax, just paragraphs and line breaks.

Nothing leaves your machine

The converter is a small JavaScript file with no runtime dependencies. The extension has no server; the CLI only opens a network connection if you pass --url. The one exception is a Pro license key, which is validated online — see the privacy question below.

Who it is for

People who move text from the web into something else every day: developers writing docs and tickets, researchers keeping notes in Obsidian, writers pasting sources into a draft, and anyone who has pasted from a web page into a code editor and got a curly quote in a string literal.

It is one converter shipped in seven forms, so you can use the same behaviour wherever you happen to be:

• Chrome / Edge / Brave extension v1.5.3
• Firefox extension v1.5.4, named Clean Copy MD
• Command-line tool Homebrew or npm
• Obsidian plugin paste as Markdown
• VS Code extension paste as Markdown
• GitHub Action convert URLs or files in CI
• Web tool and bookmarklet no install

Price

$39 once — lifetime, first 100 purchases · One licence covers 5 devices.

Batch conversion is web-tool only. Custom cleanup rules are in the browser extension and the Obsidian plugin — the CLI and the VS Code plugin have none

Free. Every surface is MIT-licensed and the full source is on GitHub. The free version is complete, not a trial. You get every conversion mode in the extension and on the web tool, and no limit on how much text you paste.

Clean Copy Pro — $19/year adds two things to the free version: batch conversion of many snippets at once in the web tool, and custom cleanup rules you define once in the browser extension or in the Obsidian plugin, and reuse on every copy. Pro also buys you a year of major updates, and your license helps fund development of the free version. One license covers 5 devices.

Buy Clean Copy Pro — $19/year

Or pay once: Clean Copy Pro Lifetime — $39 once, forever. The same Pro license and the same 5 devices, but the key never expires and nothing renews. It is a founding price for the first 100 purchases only; after that, Pro is the yearly plan above.

Buy Clean Copy Pro Lifetime — $39 once

Secure checkout via Stripe. Your license key arrives by email and on the thank-you page; activate it wherever you use Clean Copy — the activation guide covers the extension, Obsidian and the web tool.

Questions

Who makes this

Clean Copy is built and maintained by Mads Holst Jensen, an independent developer in Odense, Denmark, working as mahoje.dk. It started as a fix for a personal annoyance — pasting from web pages into Obsidian — and grew into the set of tools above. Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub.

Related reading: HTML to Markdown from the terminal, pasting into Obsidian as clean Markdown, keeping table alignment in Markdown.