Who Built URLtoMD?
URLtoMD was built by an independent developer based in India. It is a solo project, not a startup, not a corporation, and not affiliated with any AI company, media organisation or financial institution. It was built to solve a real problem encountered daily — extracting clean, usable text from webpages for use in AI tools, research and development work.
The tool is maintained on a best-effort basis. If you find a bug or have a suggestion, please email hello@urltomd.in.
Why Was URLtoMD Built?
In late 2024, as large language models became a daily tool for millions of people, a common problem emerged: when you copy text from a webpage and paste it into ChatGPT or Claude, you get a mess of invisible HTML formatting, broken spacing, and navigation clutter that the AI has to wade through. The actual content is buried.
Developers had workarounds — command-line tools, API integrations, Python scripts. But non-technical users had nothing simple, free and instant. URLtoMD was built to fill that gap. Paste a URL, get clean text. That's it.
How URLtoMD Works
URLtoMD uses Jina AI's Reader API — a publicly available service that fetches any URL and returns clean, structured Markdown. The API strips HTML tags, removes navigation, ads, scripts and formatting noise, and returns only the core written content.
URLtoMD is a front-end wrapper around this API. It provides a clean, simple interface, a preview window, download functionality, bulk conversion, and no signup requirement. No data is stored on our servers.
Site Information
What URLtoMD Does Not Do
- We do not store any URLs you submit
- We do not log your browsing activity or build user profiles
- We do not sell any data to third parties
- We do not require account creation or personal information
- We do not place tracking cookies beyond what Google AdSense requires
- We are not affiliated with Jina AI, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic or any other company
Advertising
URLtoMD is supported by Google AdSense advertisements. These ads allow us to keep the tool free for everyone. Ads are clearly labelled and placed in standard positions that do not interfere with the tool or the content. We do not allow pop-up ads, interstitial ads or any advertising that disrupts the user experience.
For information on how Google uses data in connection with AdSense, please see How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites.
Editorial Policy
URLtoMD is a utility tool, not a publication. We do not publish editorial content, news, opinions or reviews. The content on this site is limited to tool documentation, help text, FAQs and technical explanations of how URL-to-Markdown conversion works.
All content on this site is written by the tool's developer and is based on direct knowledge of how the tool operates. We do not publish sponsored content or paid editorial.
Disclaimer
URLtoMD converts publicly accessible webpages to Markdown for personal use. You are responsible for ensuring your use of converted content complies with the original website's terms of service and applicable copyright law. URLtoMD does not encourage or facilitate copyright infringement. We do not store, host or redistribute any converted content.
The tool is provided as-is with no warranty of availability, accuracy or fitness for a particular purpose. For full terms see our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.