Marksnip Markdown Web Cli

# MarkSnip - Markdown Web Clipper

Save any webpage as clean, formatted Markdown with one click. MarkSnip is a powerful web clipper for Chrome that converts articles, documentation, code snippets, tables, and more into well-structured Markdown for Obsidian, Notion, coding agents, LLM workflows, and personal knowledge bases.

## Why MarkSnip?

Whether you're a developer saving API docs, a researcher collecting papers, or a student building a knowledge base, MarkSnip gives you clean Markdown without the usual cleanup. Clip a full page, selected text, or multiple tabs, then copy, download, edit, or send it where you need it.

## Key Features

- **One-Click Clipping**: Save full pages or selected text as Markdown instantly
- **Smart Article Extraction**: Powered by Mozilla's Readability.js for clean, distraction-free content
- **Accurate HTML to Markdown**: Turndown-powered conversion handles complex pages reliably
- **Code Block Preservation**: Detects and formats code fences with proper language tags
- **Pretty-Printed Tables**: Converts HTML tables into clean, aligned Markdown tables
- **Image Downloading**: Save images alongside your Markdown files with flexible naming options
- **Popup Editing**: Review and edit Markdown before copying or downloading
- **Obsidian Integration**: Send clips directly to your Obsidian vault via the Advanced URI plugin
- **Batch Export**: Download multiple tabs or URL lists as Markdown files
- **Custom Templates**: Add front matter and back matter to every clip automatically
- **Keyboard Shortcuts**: Fast actions for popup, download, copy, and markdown links
- **Context Menu Actions**: Right-click any page, selection, link, or image for quick Markdown actions
- **Optional Agent Bridge**: Let local desktop tools pull the current tab's Markdown through an optional Windows companion app, without a manual download step

## Agent Bridge

MarkSnip includes an optional Agent Bridge for local workflows. When enabled, a user-installed Windows companion app can let local tools read Markdown from the active tab directly.

This is useful for coding agents, scripts, and automation that need the current page as Markdown immediately.

- **Local-only**: communication stays on your machine
- **Opt-in**: the bridge is disabled unless you enable it
- **Fresh or edited output**: tools can request a fresh live capture or reuse your popup-edited Markdown for the same page

## Perfect For

- **Developers**: Save API docs, GitHub READMEs, and Stack Overflow answers with code formatting intact
- **Coding Agent Workflows**: Feed clean documentation and webpages directly into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, and other local tooling
- **Researchers**: Archive articles, papers, and tables with structure preserved
- **Students**: Build study guides from course materials, tutorials, and online resources
- **Writers**: Collect reference material and organize source content
- **Knowledge Workers**: Send clean content into Obsidian, Notion, or any PKM system
- **Data Analysts**: Save schemas, SQL references, and technical docs with table formatting preserved

## Keyboard Shortcuts

- **Alt+Shift+M**: Open MarkSnip popup
- **Alt+Shift+D**: Download page as Markdown
- **Alt+Shift+C**: Copy page as Markdown
- **Alt+Shift+L**: Copy page URL as Markdown link

## Obsidian Integration

1. Install the [Advanced Obsidian URI](https://vinzent03.github.io/obsidian-advanced-uri/) plugin
2. Configure your vault in MarkSnip's options
3. Use "Copy to Obsidian" from the context menu or keyboard shortcut

## Privacy

MarkSnip does not send clipped page content to external MarkSnip servers. Clips stay in your browser unless you choose to copy, download, send to Obsidian, or enable the optional local Agent Bridge companion.

## Powered By

- [Readability.js](https://github.com/mozilla/readability) for content extraction
- [Turndown](https://github.com/mixmark-io/turndown) for HTML to Markdown
- [highlight.js](https://highlightjs.org/) for code language detection
- [CodeMirror](https://codemirror.net/) for Markdown editing

## Open Source

MarkSnip is open source and forked from the excellent [MarkDownload](https://github.com/deathau/markdownload/) by deathau, updated for Manifest V3 with additional features and workflow improvements.

Source: https://github.com/DhruvParikh1/markdownload-extension-updated
Issues & feedback: https://github.com/DhruvParikh1/markdownload-extension-updated/issues