Clipboard to Markdown (Chrome Extension)

Quickly grab content from any page:

• Ctrl+Shift+M (or click the extension) → pick an element → its HTML is converted to Markdown and copied.
• Ctrl+Shift+S → pick an element → a PNG screenshot of that element is copied. On macOS these use Control (not Command).

Install

• Grab the .zip from dist/, and unzip it
  • Or, clone this repo
• Then in Chrome, open chrome://extensions, enable Developer Mode, click Load unpacked, and select the unzipped/cloned folder.

How it works

• Triggers Chrome’s inspect overlay so you can click the element you want.
• For Markdown: grabs the element’s outer HTML, runs Turndown locally, and writes the Markdown to your clipboard.
• For screenshots: captures a clipped PNG of the element and writes it to your clipboard.
• The debugger detaches automatically after selection.

Permissions

• debugger to use CDP for inspect and screenshots.
• offscreen for the Turndown conversion worker.
• clipboardWrite/clipboardRead to update the clipboard.
• activeTab, tabs, scripting to target the current page and run clipboard writes in-page.
• Turndown is bundled locally (turndown.js).

Credits

turndown.js is from Turndown and is Copyright (c) 2017 Dom Christie under the MIT license.