Text to Markdown Converter

Convert any text to Markdown

Markdown is what READMEs, wikis, issue trackers, static-site generators, and notes apps such as Obsidian are written in, but the text you need to put there rarely starts out as Markdown. It is an API response, a spreadsheet export, a web page, a Google Doc, or a plain-text email. This converter takes any of them and writes clean GitHub-flavored Markdown, with a live preview so you can check the result before you paste it anywhere.

There is nothing to choose up front. The format is recognised as you paste: JSON, JSON Lines, YAML, CSV, TSV, XML, HTML, source code, Markdown that needs no conversion, or plain text. The From menu shows what was detected, and you can override it when a guess is wrong.

HTML to Markdown, including copied web pages

Paste HTML source and it is converted element by element: <h1> to <h6> become # headings, <strong> and <em> become **bold** and *italic*, links and images keep their addresses and titles, <ul> and <ol> become nested lists, checkbox items become task lists, <table> becomes a GitHub table with its column alignment, and <pre> blocks become fenced code that keeps its language from classes such as language-js. Scripts, styles, forms, and buttons are dropped, and the page title becomes the heading when the page has no <h1> of its own.

You don't need the source, either. Select part of a web page in your browser, copy it, and paste it into the empty input: the clipboard holds the formatted version as HTML alongside the plain text, and the converter uses the formatted one. The HTML is parsed into an inert document in your browser, so nothing in it runs and no image is fetched while converting.

Google Docs and Word to Markdown

Copying from Google Docs or Microsoft Word works the same way, and each has quirks the converter knows about. Google Docs wraps a copied selection in one bold tag that is styled back to normal weight, and marks real bold and italic with styles rather than tags; Word types its bullets as text inside list paragraphs. Both come out as proper Markdown headings, emphasis, links, bullet and numbered lists, and tables.

If you wanted the bare text rather than the formatting, click Paste as plain text under the input and the plain version replaces it.

JSON, YAML, and XML as readable documents

Structured data becomes a document a person can read. In the Document layout, a name or title field becomes the top heading and a description the opening paragraph; plain fields gather into a Field / Value table; short lists of values sit on one line; every nested object becomes a section with a heading named after its key; and every list of records becomes a table. A document wrapped in a single root key, as every XML file is, takes that key as its title.

• Document: headings, field tables, and a table per list of records — the best fit for configuration, API responses, and XML.
• Table: one table for the whole input, with nested fields flattened into dot-path columns such as address.city.
• List: a nested bullet list that mirrors the structure exactly, key by key.

CSV and TSV to Markdown tables

Paste a CSV or TSV export and it becomes a GitHub-flavored table. Commas, semicolons, and tabs are recognised, the first row becomes the header, quoted values with commas or line breaks inside them are read correctly, pipes inside values are escaped so the table never breaks, and columns that hold only numbers are right-aligned the way a spreadsheet shows them.

For data you want as JSON instead, the CSV to JSON converter turns the same file into an array of objects, and the JSON to Markdown converter goes from JSON straight to a table.

Plain text to Markdown

Plain text is kept as you wrote it, with its structure made explicit. Paragraphs stay paragraphs and each line break is kept, unless you turn on Join wrapped lines for text wrapped at a fixed width, such as an email or terminal output. Lines starting with bullets such as •, -, or * become a list, numbered lines a numbered list, deeper indentation a nested list, and a short title-like line above a paragraph a heading. A line of dashes becomes a horizontal rule, and an indented block becomes a code block.

Anything Markdown would otherwise read as syntax is escaped: a # at the start of a line, a < that looks like an HTML tag, an entity such as &. The rendered text says exactly what yours said. Source code is recognised and wrapped in a fenced block labelled with its language, so it is highlighted in the preview.

Preview, copy, and keep editing

Switch the output to Preview to see the Markdown rendered as GitHub would show it, with tables, task lists, and highlighted code. Copy it, download it as a .md file, or open it in the Markdown viewer to edit it with a live side-by-side preview and export it as HTML or PDF. If you paste JSON or HTML into the Markdown viewer itself, it offers the same conversion in place.