Copy as Markdown

Copy Link or Image as Markdown code

As of June 2026, Copy as Markdown has 30,000 users and a 4.26/5 rating from 96 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

Usersdown 25.0 percent25.0%
30.0K
30,000
Ratingdown 1.2 percent1.2%
4.26
96 reviews
Reviewsup 10.3 percent+10.3%
96
Version
3.7.0
Manifest V3
90-day change · In the last 90 days this extension lost 10.0K users, 2 version updates, changed permissions.

History

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Apr 28, 202640.0K4.28903.6.0
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Jun 20, 202640.0K4.26963.7.0
Now30.0K4.26963.7.0

Changelog

  • Jun 2, 2026
    description
    Copy as Markdown is a browser extension that helps you copy the following things as Markdown to your system clipboard:
    
    On the web page:
    
    - Selection Text as Markdown
    - A Link on the Page
    - An Image on the Page, with or without wrapping link
    
    Exporting tabs in the current window, either all or highlighted tabs:
    
    - Current Tab as Link
    - List of Links
    - Task List (for GitHub-Flavored Markdown)
    - Including your tab grouping
    
    You can add Custom Formats to satisfy your needs!
    
    You can also specify keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.
    
    Known Issues
    
    - Cannot grab image.alt when copying image
    - On Microsoft Windows, copied page link doesn't come with the link title
    
    [Important] About Permissions
    
    When using certain features such as tab exporting, you will be promoted to grant optional permissions, so that Copy as Markdown may read data from your browser. You may revoke permissions anytime on the Options page, from Extensions > Copy as Markdown > Extension Options.
    
    Copy as Markdown respects your privacy. It does NOT collect your browsing history, and will only access tabs when you use tab exporting features.
    
    ---
    
    Latest update:
    
    - 3.6.0
      - Fix: copying selection as markdown may include extra new lines at the end of the output. Thanks @alexchexes on GitHub
      - Fix: copying on Chrome may fail due to noisy web pages that interfere with iframe message passing. Thanks @alexchexes on GitHub
      - Improve: surface warnings when the output is empty, and prevent writing to clipboard in such cases
    
    For past release notes please see https://github.com/yorkxin/copy-as-markdown/releases
    Copy as Markdown is a browser extension that helps you copy the following things as Markdown to your system clipboard:
    
    On the web page:
    
    - Selection Text as Markdown
    - A Link on the Page
    - An Image on the Page, with or without wrapping link
    
    Exporting tabs in the current window, either all or highlighted tabs:
    
    - Current Tab as Link
    - List of Links
    - Task List (for GitHub-Flavored Markdown)
    - Including your tab grouping
    
    You can add Custom Formats to satisfy your needs!
    
    You can also specify keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.
    
    Known Issues
    
    - Cannot grab image.alt when copying image
    - On Microsoft Windows, copied page link doesn't come with the link title
    
    [Important] About Permissions
    
    When using certain features such as tab exporting, you will be promoted to grant optional permissions, so that Copy as Markdown may read data from your browser. You may revoke permissions anytime on the Options page, from Extensions > Copy as Markdown > Extension Options.
    
    Copy as Markdown respects your privacy. It does NOT collect your browsing history, and will only access tabs when you use tab exporting features.
    
    ---
    
    Latest update:
    
    - 3.7.0
      - [FIX] Improved reliability of writing text to system clipboard
      - [BREAKING] This version requires minimum Chrome M116 or later. Users under M116 please use 3.5.0 or lower.
      - [NOITCE] You will see a permission warning about clipboard writing during upgrade progress. This is to grant the extension proper permission to write to the clipboard. To be clear, this extension has been writing to the OS clipboard since the very beginning using workarounds that did not require clipboardWrite permission, but now it requires.
    
    For past release notes please see https://github.com/yorkxin/copy-as-markdown/releases
  • Jun 2, 2026
    permissions
    activeTab, alarms, contextMenus, scripting, storage
    activeTab, alarms, contextMenus, clipboardWrite, offscreen, scripting, storage
  • Apr 23, 2026
    description
    Copy as Markdown is a browser extension that helps you copy the following things as Markdown to your system clipboard:
    
    On the web page:
    
    - Selection Text as Markdown
    - A Link on the Page
    - An Image on the Page, with or without wrapping link
    
    Exporting tabs in the current window, either all or highlighted tabs:
    
    - Current Tab as Link
    - List of Links
    - Task List (for GitHub-Flavored Markdown)
    - Including your tab grouping
    
    You can add Custom Formats to satisfy your needs!
    
    You can also specify keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.
    
    Known Issues
    
    - Cannot grab image.alt when copying image
    - On Microsoft Windows, copied page link doesn't come with the link title
    
    [Important] About Permissions
    
    When using certain features such as tab exporting, you will be promoted to grant optional permissions, so that Copy as Markdown may read data from your browser. You may revoke permissions anytime on the Options page, from Extensions > Copy as Markdown > Extension Options.
    
    Copy as Markdown respects your privacy. It does NOT collect your browsing history, and will only access tabs when you use tab exporting features.
    
    ---
    
    Latest update:
    
    - 3.5.0
      - Fix Copy Selection as Markdown may generate extra new line at the end of each list item when content is from ChatGPT.
      - Fix Copy Selection as Markdown may generate broken code block when content is from ChatGPT.
      - Add an option to configure code block style for Copy Selection as Markdown
      - Source code is available at https://github.com/yorkxin/copy-as-markdown/releases/tag/v3.5.0
    Copy as Markdown is a browser extension that helps you copy the following things as Markdown to your system clipboard:
    
    On the web page:
    
    - Selection Text as Markdown
    - A Link on the Page
    - An Image on the Page, with or without wrapping link
    
    Exporting tabs in the current window, either all or highlighted tabs:
    
    - Current Tab as Link
    - List of Links
    - Task List (for GitHub-Flavored Markdown)
    - Including your tab grouping
    
    You can add Custom Formats to satisfy your needs!
    
    You can also specify keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.
    
    Known Issues
    
    - Cannot grab image.alt when copying image
    - On Microsoft Windows, copied page link doesn't come with the link title
    
    [Important] About Permissions
    
    When using certain features such as tab exporting, you will be promoted to grant optional permissions, so that Copy as Markdown may read data from your browser. You may revoke permissions anytime on the Options page, from Extensions > Copy as Markdown > Extension Options.
    
    Copy as Markdown respects your privacy. It does NOT collect your browsing history, and will only access tabs when you use tab exporting features.
    
    ---
    
    Latest update:
    
    - 3.6.0
      - Fix: copying selection as markdown may include extra new lines at the end of the output. Thanks @alexchexes on GitHub
      - Fix: copying on Chrome may fail due to noisy web pages that interfere with iframe message passing. Thanks @alexchexes on GitHub
      - Improve: surface warnings when the output is empty, and prevent writing to clipboard in such cases
    
    For past release notes please see https://github.com/yorkxin/copy-as-markdown/releases

Permissions & access

Permissions
activeTabalarmscontextMenusclipboardWriteoffscreenscriptingstorage
Host access
None declared

Screenshots

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About

Copy as Markdown is a browser extension that helps you copy the following things as Markdown to your system clipboard:

On the web page:

- Selection Text as Markdown
- A Link on the Page
- An Image on the Page, with or without wrapping link

Exporting tabs in the current window, either all or highlighted tabs:

- Current Tab as Link
- List of Links
- Task List (for GitHub-Flavored Markdown)
- Including your tab grouping

You can add Custom Formats to satisfy your needs!

You can also specify keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

Known Issues

- Cannot grab image.alt when copying image
- On Microsoft Windows, copied page link doesn't come with the link title

[Important] About Permissions

When using certain features such as tab exporting, you will be promoted to grant optional permissions, so that Copy as Markdown may read data from your browser. You may revoke permissions anytime on the Options page, from Extensions > Copy as Markdown > Extension Options.

Copy as Markdown respects your privacy. It does NOT collect your browsing history, and will only access tabs when you use tab exporting features.

---

Latest update:

- 3.7.0
  - [FIX] Improved reliability of writing text to system clipboard
  - [BREAKING] This version requires minimum Chrome M116 or later. Users under M116 please use 3.5.0 or lower.
  - [NOITCE] You will see a permission warning about clipboard writing during upgrade progress. This is to grant the extension proper permission to write to the clipboard. To be clear, this extension has been writing to the OS clipboard since the very beginning using workarounds that did not require clipboardWrite permission, but now it requires.

For past release notes please see https://github.com/yorkxin/copy-as-markdown/releases

Technical

Version
3.7.0
Manifest
V3
Size
164KiB
Min Chrome
116
Languages
1
Featured
Yes

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
u0e770c79cbcdab91ae9347839f6f7b0d
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Mar 1, 2012
Last Updated (Store)
Jun 2, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 20, 2026
Website
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