# Copy as Markdown

> Browser extension to copy hyperlinks, images, and selected text as Markdown

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/cpy-as-md](https://chrome-stats.com/d/cpy-as-md)

## Overview

- **ID:** `cpy-as-md`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Laxman
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 420
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 4.69 / 5 (13 ratings)
- **Version:** 25.6.9
- **Last updated:** 2025-06-09
- **First published:** 2019-06-27
- **Size:** 169 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/cpy-as-md/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/notlmn/copy-as-markdown/issues](https://github.com/notlmn/copy-as-markdown/issues)

## Description

**Copy as Markdown** is a powerful browser extension designed to streamline the process of copying content from web pages directly as Markdown format. With this tool, users can easily copy hyperlinks, images, and selected text while preserving formatting such as italic, bold, strike-through, and inline code.

The extension supports copying unordered and ordered lists, including task lists, tables compliant with GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), and fenced code blocks with automatic language detection. It offers flexibility by allowing individual selection of links or images when dealing with linked images. While Chrome imposes some limitations on extracting alt texts or anchor texts for Markdown, the extension fully supports this functionality in Firefox.

For operation, Copy as Markdown requests permissions to display context menu options and access the active tab's content. Importantly, it only writes to the clipboard and does not read clipboard data, ensuring user privacy. This extension is an essential tool for developers, writers, and anyone who frequently converts web content into Markdown for documentation, notes, or publishing.

## Rankings

- #5,541 — Overall
- #205 — text-to-image
- #209 — string
- #250 — countdown

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/cpy-as-md)