Save Page to Markdown

About

📚 Knowledge Base Collector — Save any web page as Markdown to your own server.

One click. Your data stays yours.

✨ FEATURES

• One-click save — Click the extension icon, the current page is instantly extracted and converted to clean Markdown
• Bypass anti-scraping — Content is extracted in the browser, bypassing Cloudflare, EdgeOne, and other WAF/anti-bot protections
• Smart categorization — Organize saved pages into custom folder categories
• Metadata extraction — Automatically captures title, author, publish date, and source URL
• Self-hosted backend — All data is saved to YOUR server. No third-party cloud, no tracking, no data collection
• Fully open source — Both the extension and backend server are open source (MIT License)

🛠️ HOW IT WORKS

1. Install this extension from the Chrome Web Store
2. Deploy the backend server on your own machine (Docker or direct Python)
3. Configure the server address in the extension settings
4. Browse to any page you want to save → click the icon → done!

The saved Markdown files include:
• Page title as the heading
• Source URL, author, and timestamp as metadata
• Clean, readable Markdown content

🐳 BACKEND SETUP (Docker — Recommended)

git clone https://github.com/ezzty/knowledge-base-collector.git
cd knowledge-base-collector/docker
docker compose up -d

The server runs at http://localhost:8396 by default.
Knowledge base files are saved to ./data/knowledge-base/

🔧 BACKEND SETUP (Direct Python)

pip install trafilatura markdownify readability-lxml requests
python3 server.py

Environment variables:
• KB_PORT — Server port (default: 8396)
• KB_DIR — Knowledge base save path (default: ./knowledge-base)

📖 FULL DOCUMENTATION & SOURCE CODE

https://github.com/ezzty/knowledge-base-collector

🔒 PRIVACY

This extension does NOT collect, store, or transmit any personal data.
All data flows directly from your browser to your own self-hosted server.
No analytics. No tracking. No third-party services.