# Grabdown — Selection to Markdown

> Select any text, link, or page and copy it as clean Markdown. Runs entirely on your device — no network, no storage, no account. Minimal permissions, zero dependencies, open source.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabdown-selection-to-markdown](https://chrome-stats.com/d/grabdown-selection-to-markdown)

## Overview

- **ID:** `grabdown-selection-to-markdown`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** benjamin
- **Category:** other
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19
- **First published:** 2026-06-16
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/grabdown-selection-to-markdown/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/jjdoor/grabdown/issues](https://github.com/jjdoor/grabdown/issues)

## Rankings

- #105,071 — Overall
- #170 — selection

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `activeTab`
- `scripting`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.
- 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/grabdown-selection-to-markdown)