HTMLtoMD

Convert HTML to Markdown. Single page or suck and convert an entire site.

• Converts HTML to Markdown:
  • view a single web page (or local html file) as markdown
  • links and images are preserved inline with link text / alt text and absolute url
  • an efficient way to archive a site if you only need to save the text content
  • save the archive with each page as a separate file or consolidated into a single markdown file
  • currently free
• Taps into PeacockMedia's long expertise in crawling websites and parsing HTML (Integrity, Scrutiny, WebScraper)
  • crawls and converts an entire website and saves to disc
  • provide the home or starting url and let HTMLtoMD do the rest
  • the archive is opened in a file browser for you to view

 

Category:Developer Tools / Utilities

System Requirements

Mac OS 10.14 or higher, Apple Silicon or Intel.

 

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History

Version 2.2 - Aug 2024

• Adds support for <code> html element
• removes spurious spaces which surrounded emphasised or strong text
• updates application icon

Version 2.1 - Jul 2024

• Improves parsing of headings

Version 2.0.2 - Jul 2024

• Updated build for Apple Silicon / Intel, 10.14 upwards
• Fixes a bug which caused the engine to stall on certain pages

Version 2.0.1 - Oct 2019

• Built and notarized for running on 10.14/10.15 (Mojave/Catalina) and supporting dark mode.
• Updated to most recent version of the Integrity crawling engine
• Adds About / Help box

Version 2.0 - May 2018

• Updates to the Integrity v8 crawling engine
• Adds option to download images
• Adds option to save each page as a separate markdown file (as before) or consolidate them all into one long markdown file
• Adds option to ignore headers / footers / navs
• Adds option for save dialog to open when scan completes (this option is on by default in order to be consistent with behaviour of version 1)
• Adds options to include link urls and image urls in the markdown
• Fixes issue where extraneous dashes could appear within the markdown
• Fixes bug causing some text to be missing from the markdown immediately following comments in the html
• Other improvements / fixes relating to markdown conversion
• Sorts out some problems re drag / drop and pasting to the starting points view

Version 1.3 - May 2015

Improvements to workflow:
- a paste now works whether you're at the starting points screen or not
- if you've copied from browser or an email, HTMLtoMD will attempt to take that off the clipboard as HTML, avoiding the need to view source before copying

Enhancements / fixes:
- adds automatic update check
- fixes problems with pause/continue button when crawling a site

Version 1.2 (no longer beta) - April 2015

- Fixes bug which was causing a crash if unusually long urls existed in links on a page
- Minor interface changes
- Web download version of app is not sandboxed, was sometimes causing problems when crawling a site locally (alert message said 'you do not have permission to view this file')
- Out of beta and adds in-app purchase for website crawling functionality

Version 1.1 (Still beta) - November 2014

- Adds 'Starting point' screen. In addition to giving the url of a page or starting point for a crawl, you can paste html or drag & drop a file
- Return to the starting point screen any time (except when a site scan is running - pause that first) with cmd-2

v1.0 - November 2014

First beta release