Medium to Markdown

About

Convert any Medium article to a clean Markdown file with one click.

Click the toolbar icon or use the right-click menu on any Medium article. The extension extracts the article content directly from the page, converts it to well-structured Markdown, and downloads it to your computer. No external services, no tracking, no account needed.

WHAT YOU GET
• YAML frontmatter with title, author, published date, source URL, and reading time
• Proper heading hierarchy (Medium uses <h2> for both headings and subheadings — this extension detects the difference and emits ## / ### correctly)
• Fenced code blocks with best-effort language detection
• Clean inline formatting: bold, italic, inline code, links
• Bullet and numbered lists with nesting
• Images with normalized Medium CDN URLs
• No Medium UI chrome leaking into your output

THREE WAYS TO USE IT
1. Click the toolbar icon (or press Cmd+Shift+M / Ctrl+Shift+M)
2. Right-click → Medium to Markdown → Save as Markdown
3. Right-click → Medium to Markdown → Copy as Markdown (copies to clipboard)

Also includes "Save raw HTML" for archiving the original page.

Works on medium.com and Medium-hosted publications on custom domains (e.g. javascript.plainenglish.io, towardsdatascience.com).

The conversion runs entirely in your browser. No data leaves your machine.

Open source: https://github.com/johnhamilto/medium-to-md