HTML to Markdown Converter

How HTML to Markdown Conversion Works

Toolkiya parses your HTML into a DOM tree using the browser's built-in DOMParser, then walks the tree node by node and emits Markdown for each supported element. Headings become '#' prefixes, anchors become '[text](url)', bold and italic become '**' and '_', lists become '-' or '1.', and code blocks are preserved with fences.

Unsupported or purely presentational tags (div, span, style attributes) are flattened to their text content. Inline styles are dropped because Markdown has no equivalent. The output is a clean, portable Markdown string that round-trips well through CommonMark renderers. Because parsing uses the browser's own HTML engine, the result matches how the page actually renders rather than relying on a fragile custom tokenizer.

When to Convert HTML to Markdown

Migrating content out of WordPress, Ghost, or another CMS into a Markdown-based static site. Cleaning up rich-text email signatures or pasted content from Google Docs. Extracting article text from a saved web page for archiving in Obsidian or Notion. Converting legacy documentation written as raw HTML into a Git-friendly Markdown format.

Why Convert HTML in Toolkiya

Server-based converters see every byte of your HTML, including any private content you are migrating. Toolkiya runs entirely in your browser using the same DOM parser the browser uses to render pages, so nothing leaves your tab.

There is no file size cap from upload limits, no signup, no rate limit, and no daily quota. Paste a single article or an entire exported HTML dump — the converter handles both without asking for an email or a subscription.

Tips for Cleaner Markdown

Strip wrapper divs and tracking scripts before pasting if the source HTML is from a heavy CMS — fewer noise nodes means cleaner output. Tables with merged cells (rowspan/colspan) do not map well to Markdown; consider converting them to text first. If you need to preserve raw HTML for a specific block, wrap it so the parser keeps it intact rather than flattening.