Single URL
One link in, one clean article out. Bulk mode handles a whole list.
URL · YouTube · PDF · Word · Excel · Sitemap
output.md pulls the real content out of a web page, a video, a sitemap or a document — and hands you editable Markdown. Then let AI translate it, rewrite it, merge it or answer questions about it.
Free account, 10 markdown + 10 AI credits included. No credit card needed.
Clean Markdown. Nothing else.
No navigation, no cookie bars, no ads, no tracking pixels — just the text, with its structure intact.
What output.md is
output.md has one job: turn whatever you are reading into structured, portable text that an editor — or a language model — can actually work with.
Step one · Bring it in
Paste one link and get the article back as Markdown. Bulk mode takes a whole list of URLs at once and queues them into the same project. HTML to Markdown.
Drop in a video link and we pull the transcript, so a 40-minute talk becomes a document you can search, quote and summarise. YouTube transcript to Markdown.
Upload reports and whitepapers. The text comes out as a Markdown file you can edit and download. PDF to Markdown.
Upload a .docx and download the text as a Markdown file. DOCX to Markdown.
Spreadsheets become Markdown tables — one sheet per section — so numbers stay readable next to your prose. Excel to Markdown.
Point at sitemap.xml and import an entire website. Review the queue, process it, and export the whole thing as one project. Sitemap to Markdown.
How it works
Server-side, so awkward layouts, lazy-loaded text and JavaScript-heavy pages do not derail the copy-paste. Nothing is published, and no .md files are written to disk on our side.
Sources lived in twelve places and every copy-paste broke the headings. So we changed the order of operations…
Content detection isolates the main body text and ignores everything around it. What stays is the part a human came to read.
Navigation, footers, cookie bars, share rails, related-post blocks, images and embeds are removed. Text-only by default, which is exactly what an editor or a language model wants.
Preview it, edit it in place, copy it, download a single .md, or export a whole project as a ZIP. Everything stays inside a project you control.
The output
Not a screenshot, not a PDF, not a pile of HTML. A plain .md file that opens anywhere and diffs in git.
Step two · Do something with it
Every article you convert can be reshaped with AI, grouped with other articles, or turned into a knowledge base you can ask questions.
Turn any converted article into another language while keeping its Markdown structure intact — headings stay headings, tables stay tables.
1 AI creditRewrite raw source material into a publishable article with its own angle, headings and flow. Useful when the source is a transcript, a spec sheet or a dense report.
1 AI creditCondense a long piece into a short, native-feeling post. One conversion, one post — no prompt engineering required.
1 AI creditTurn a YouTube transcript or a wall of text into headings, lists and — when the source is a how-to — a numbered step-by-step plan. Same facts, readable structure.
1 AI creditAdd articles to a collection with one click, or upload your own Markdown. Pick a length from short to cornerstone, add instructions for tone and audience, and generate one new article that synthesises the whole set.
2 AI credits per generationAsk questions across a whole collection and get answers grounded in your own documents. Your research becomes something you can interrogate instead of re-read.
0.1 AI credit per questionBundle everything into a project, drop the generated article back into an existing project or a new one, and export the lot as a ZIP whenever you want it out.
No creditsWhere people use it
Upload a text-based PDF and download an editable .md file. No install.
See the steps → 02Convert a Word file to Markdown and save it as .md.
See the steps → 03Paste a URL. Keep the article — headings, lists, tables — and drop the chrome.
See the steps → 04Paste a video link and download the transcript as an .md file.
See the steps → 05Point at sitemap.xml, keep the URLs you want, export a ZIP of .md files.
See the steps → 06Turn a site’s articles into Markdown from a sitemap or a URL list.
See the steps → 07Each sheet becomes a Markdown table in one .md file.
See the steps → 08Language models choke on HTML. Give them Markdown instead and the answers get noticeably better.
See the steps → 09Import a sitemap, process the queue, export a ZIP. A full site becomes a folder of plain files.
See the steps → 10Pull your competitors' pages into one project and compare positioning as text, not screenshots.
See the steps → 11Scattered help pages, PDFs and specs consolidated into one Markdown source of truth.
See the steps → 12Turn a webinar or conference talk into a transcript, then into a publishable blog article.
See the steps → 13Read your own site the way a crawler does — structure first, decoration gone.
See the steps → 14Translate an entire project article by article while keeping headings, lists and tables intact.
See the steps → 15Drop in an 80-page PDF, get the text, then generate a short summary your team will actually read.
See the steps → 16Collect the week's sources, merge them into one article, publish. Same workflow every time.
See the steps → 17Everything a new client sent you — site, decks, sheets — as one searchable knowledge base.
See the steps → 18Pages disappear. Plain text does not. Keep what was written, not how it was styled.
See the steps → 19Papers, lecture recordings and spreadsheets in one collection you can ask questions of.
See the steps →No limits on where it comes from
If it has text, output.md can turn it into a file you own. Nothing to install, nothing to host, nothing to maintain.
Pricing
Markdown credits convert sources. AI credits run transforms, collection generations and Knowledge questions. Packs include both.
Markdown credits: URL / YouTube / PDF / Word / Excel → Markdown. AI credits: translation, blog, LinkedIn, outline, collection generation (2 credits), Knowledge chat (0.1 per question). Packs are one-time top-ups — no subscription.
FAQ
Markdown credits cover 1 URL/YouTube/PDF/Word/Excel → Markdown conversion. AI credits cover 1 transform (translation, blog, LinkedIn or outline); a Knowledge chat question costs 0.1 credit. Collection generation costs 2 AI credits. Credit packs include both markdown and AI credits. Markdown credits cannot be used for AI actions.
Upload a text-based PDF (PDF to Markdown), a .docx (DOCX to Markdown) or an Excel file (Excel to Markdown). Paste a URL (HTML to Markdown), a YouTube link (YouTube transcript to Markdown) or a sitemap (sitemap to Markdown, or scrape a website to Markdown). Each conversion is one markdown credit. Download the .md file or export the project as a ZIP.
Yes. Use Sitemap mode to enqueue the URLs from sitemap.xml, review the queue, process it, and export the finished project.
Copy the Markdown straight from the editor, download individual .md files, or export an entire project as a ZIP.
Optional transforms let you generate a translation, a blog article, a LinkedIn post or a structured outline (headings, lists and a step-by-step plan for how-to content). With Collections you can group several articles and generate one new article that synthesises them.
Collections let you add multiple articles (via the Collect button) or upload Markdown directly. Then generate one new article from all of them, or use the Knowledge page to chat with your documents. You can create as many collections as you like.
Your projects and articles live in your account so you can come back to them. No .md files are written to disk on our side during conversion — you decide what gets saved and what gets exported.