Web2MD v0.4.0: Power User Features

Web2MD started as a one-click webpage-to-Markdown converter. With v0.4.0, it becomes a complete web research toolkit. This release adds seven major features that eliminate the repetitive steps between finding content online and getting useful output from AI.

If you have been copying Markdown, switching to ChatGPT, typing the same prompt for the tenth time today, then switching back to grab the next URL — this update is built for exactly that friction.

Here is everything new in v0.4.0.

Prompt Templates — Stop Retyping the Same Instructions

Every AI user has a handful of prompts they use constantly. "Summarize this article." "Translate to English." "Pull out the key points." Before v0.4.0, you had to type or paste these instructions every single time you sent content to an AI platform.

Prompt Templates fix this. Web2MD now ships with four built-in templates:

• Summarize — Get a concise summary of the converted content
• Translate to English — Translate foreign-language articles into English
• Extract Key Points — Pull out the most important facts and takeaways
• Explain Simply — Rewrite complex content in plain, accessible language

Each template uses a {content} placeholder that Web2MD automatically replaces with your converted Markdown before sending it to the AI platform.

The built-in templates are just the starting point. You can create, edit, and delete your own custom templates directly inside the extension. If you regularly ask an AI to "rewrite this as a Twitter thread" or "generate a bullet-point brief for my team," save it as a template once and select it with one click from then on.

When you use the "Send to AI" feature, you now see a template selector before the content is sent. Pick your template, and Web2MD handles the rest — opening the AI platform, injecting the prompt with your Markdown content already embedded, and optionally auto-submitting it.

This alone can save minutes per session for anyone doing repetitive AI-assisted research or content processing. For ideas on how to structure these prompts for optimal results, see our ChatGPT and Claude Markdown workflow guide.

Batch Convert — Process Multiple URLs at Once

Research rarely involves a single page. You might have a dozen tabs open, or a list of URLs from a colleague, or a set of search results you want to analyze together. Converting them one at a time is tedious.

The new Batch tab in Web2MD solves this. You have two ways to load URLs:

1. Paste a list — Drop in multiple URLs, one per line. Useful when you have a curated list from a document, spreadsheet, or message.
2. Select from open tabs — Web2MD shows all your open browser tabs and lets you check the ones you want to convert. No copy-pasting needed.

Once you start the batch, Web2MD converts each URL sequentially through the service worker. A progress tracker shows you which page is currently being processed, how many are complete, and the overall status. You can watch it work through 5, 10, or 50 pages without touching anything.

When the batch finishes, you get two bulk actions:

• Copy All — Copies every converted page as a single Markdown document to your clipboard, separated by headers. Paste the entire collection into Claude or ChatGPT for cross-document analysis.
• Download All — Downloads each converted page as an individual .md file. Perfect for feeding into Obsidian, a documentation site, or any local Markdown workflow.

Batch Convert turns Web2MD from a single-page tool into a research pipeline. Combined with Prompt Templates, you can convert 20 articles and send them to an AI with a pre-written analysis prompt in under a minute. This is especially powerful for academic research workflows that involve synthesizing multiple sources.

Site Extractors — Structured Data from Reddit, GitHub, YouTube, and More

Generic webpage conversion works well for articles and blog posts. But some of the most valuable content on the internet lives on platforms with complex layouts — nested comment threads, code blocks inside answers, video transcripts hidden behind UI elements.

Web2MD v0.4.0 introduces Site Extractors: five dedicated converters that understand the structure of specific platforms and pull out exactly the content you need.

Reddit Extractor

When you convert a Reddit thread — one of the platforms that block direct AI access — Web2MD uses Reddit's JSON API to extract the original post plus the top 30 comments. Instead of getting a messy dump of the page layout, you get a clean Markdown document with the post body, author, score, and a properly nested comment hierarchy. This is ideal for feeding discussions into an AI for sentiment analysis, summary, or finding the most helpful response.

Stack Overflow Extractor

Stack Overflow pages contain a mix of questions, answers, comments, code blocks, and vote counts. The Stack Overflow extractor uses the API to pull the question and all answers sorted by votes. Code blocks are preserved with proper syntax highlighting markers. You get a clean document where the best answer is at the top, ready for an AI to reference or explain.

GitHub Extractor

For GitHub issues and pull requests, the extractor uses the REST API to pull the issue body, all comments, author information, and metadata like labels and status. This is particularly useful for feeding long issue discussions into an AI to get a summary of the debate, identify the consensus, or draft a response.

YouTube Extractor

The YouTube extractor pulls the video title, description, and — most importantly — the captions or subtitles. This effectively turns any YouTube video into a readable text document. Feed it into an AI to get a summary of a 45-minute talk, extract action items from a meeting recording, or translate a lecture into another language.

Twitter/X Extractor

Twitter's content is notoriously difficult to scrape. The Web2MD extractor uses the FxTwitter API as the primary method, with a DOM-based fallback for resilience. You get the tweet text, author, engagement metrics, and thread context in clean Markdown.

Site Extractors activate automatically when Web2MD detects a supported URL. You do not need to configure anything — just click the extension icon on a Reddit thread or YouTube video, and the dedicated extractor handles the rest.

Obsidian Integration — Save Directly to Your Vault

Many Web2MD users are also Obsidian users. Until now, the workflow was: convert the page, copy the Markdown, switch to Obsidian, create a new note, paste. Four steps too many.

v0.4.0 adds a "Save to Obsidian" button directly in the conversion results. Click it, and Web2MD opens your Obsidian vault using the obsidian:// URI protocol and creates a new note with the converted Markdown content already inside.

To set it up, go to Settings and enter your vault name. That is the only configuration needed. From then on, every conversion result includes a one-click path to your Obsidian knowledge base.

This pairs naturally with Batch Convert. Convert a collection of research articles, then save each one to Obsidian individually, or use Copy All to create a single research note.

Notion Integration — Export Pages to Your Workspace

For teams and individuals who organize their knowledge in Notion, Web2MD now supports direct export.

In Settings, you will find a "Connect to Notion" option that uses OAuth to securely link your Notion workspace. Once connected, a new "Export to Notion" button appears in your conversion results. Click it, and Web2MD creates a new page in your Notion workspace with the full Markdown content properly formatted.

This is particularly powerful for team research workflows. One person can convert and export a set of reference articles to a shared Notion database, making the information immediately available to the entire team without any manual formatting or copy-paste.

The OAuth connection means you control exactly what Web2MD can access in your workspace, and you can revoke access at any time from your Notion settings.

6 AI Platforms — Perplexity, Grok, and DeepSeek Join the Lineup

Web2MD's "Send to AI" feature originally supported three platforms: Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. v0.4.0 adds three more:

• Perplexity — Great for research queries where you want the AI to cross-reference your content with its own web search capabilities
• Grok — xAI's model, useful for users in the X/Twitter ecosystem who want to analyze content alongside real-time social data
• DeepSeek — A strong open-weight model option for users who prefer alternatives to the major US-based AI providers

The Settings page now features a clean 3x2 grid selector where you can see all six platforms at a glance and pick your preferred default. The grid layout makes switching between platforms fast — useful if you regularly compare how different models handle the same content.

All six platforms work with Prompt Templates, so you can send the same article with the same prompt to Claude and Perplexity back-to-back to compare their analyses.

Keyboard Shortcut — Convert Without Opening the Popup

Sometimes you want Markdown and you want it now. The new global keyboard shortcut converts the current page instantly without opening the extension popup at all.

• Mac: Control + M
• Windows / Linux: Alt + M

Press the shortcut, and Web2MD runs the conversion in the background and copies the clean Markdown directly to your clipboard. You get a brief notification confirming the copy, and you can immediately paste into your AI tool, editor, or note-taking app.

This is the fastest possible path from webpage to Markdown. No clicking, no popup, no extra steps. For users who convert dozens of pages per day, this shortcut alone can save significant time.

The shortcut can be customized through Chrome's extension keyboard shortcuts page (chrome://extensions/shortcuts) if the default conflicts with another tool you use.

Summary

Web2MD v0.4.0 is the biggest update since launch. Here is what you get:

| Feature | What It Does | |---------|-------------| | Prompt Templates | 4 built-in + custom templates with {content} placeholder | | Batch Convert | Convert multiple URLs at once with progress tracking | | Site Extractors | Dedicated parsers for Reddit, Stack Overflow, GitHub, YouTube, Twitter | | Obsidian Integration | One-click save to your vault via obsidian:// protocol | | Notion Integration | OAuth-based export to your Notion workspace | | 6 AI Platforms | Added Perplexity, Grok, DeepSeek to the platform selector | | Keyboard Shortcut | Control+M / Alt+M for instant clipboard conversion |

Every feature in this release was designed to remove a repetitive step from the workflow between finding content on the web and doing something useful with it through AI. Fewer clicks, less switching, more output.

Update to v0.4.0 from the Chrome Web Store or visit web2md.org to get started.

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Web2MD converts any webpage to clean, AI-ready Markdown. With v0.4.0, it also templates your prompts, batches your conversions, and connects to the tools you already use. Try it today.