Save web articles to Obsidian as Markdown

A bookmark records where an article lives. A Markdown note also gives you a text copy you can annotate and connect to your other notes. GetMarkdown extracts the main content of a public page so navigation menus and related-post lists do not fill your vault.

Start with the original article URL in the URL to Markdown converter. Preview the result, download the .md file, and move it into a folder in your Obsidian vault. You can also paste the Markdown into a new note if you want to choose its name and location first.

The extracted Markdown includes YAML frontmatter with the source URL and available metadata such as title, author and publication date. Keep those details so a future reader can return to the original article and distinguish its publication date from the date you saved it.

Give the note a descriptive filename, then add a short paragraph in your own words: why you saved it, what it changes, or where you might use it. Separate your commentary from the copied article so you can tell which claims came from the author.

Links and image references are written as full URLs so they still point to the original site when the Markdown moves. The downloaded .md file does not bundle those remote image files. An image can stop loading if the publisher removes it or requires authentication.

For an offline reference, save any images you are allowed to keep into your vault and update their paths in the note. Open a few links and check tables in your notes app before treating the clipping as a complete archive. The source page remains the reference for layout and details that Markdown cannot preserve.

Public URL conversion includes 20 free pages per IP address per UTC day without an account. The allowance resets at midnight UTC. Our server fetches the page and caches the extracted result for up to an hour.

The file converter is a separate route: saved HTML files stay in your browser during conversion and have no daily file quota. Each file can be up to 10 MB, with up to eight files per batch. Avoid sending private URLs or sensitive page contents to the public URL converter.

If the URL converter cannot see the article, open it in your browser and wait for the text to load. Save the page as HTML, then upload the .html or .htm file in the homepage file converter. This can help with pages whose content is only present after JavaScript runs.

Check the saved file before converting: some sites save only a shell or omit content. A login, paywall or publisher restriction may also limit what you can retrieve. Use content you have permission to access and keep.