Paste as Markdown

Name: Paste as Markdown
Rating: 4.25 (8 reviews)
Author: Medusis

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Paste as Markdown lets you effortlessly paste content from your clipboard as Markdown in any web form. Whether your clipboard content originates from text editors, graphic programs, or web pages—no matter the formatting such as italics, bold, or lists—it converts everything into clean Markdown syntax upon pasting. The extension performs all conversions locally in your browser, ensuring privacy since no data is sent externally.

Since version 5.7.2, Paste as Markdown supports the interpretation of inline styles like bold and italic, including content copied from Google Docs. This handy tool streamlines the workflow for bloggers, developers, and content creators who prefer Markdown formatting without manual conversion.

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By:

Medusis

Users:

1,000

Rating:

4.25

(8)

Version:

0.5.7.2 Last updated: 2020-02-19

Creation date:

2020-02-19

Risk:

Permissions:

activeTab
clipboardRead
contextMenus

Size:

67.66KB

Email:

me*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-16

Ranking

# 25,784 ▼ 34

Other rankings

#7137 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 10 #17 in paste keyword 35 ▼ 3 #271 in clipboard keyword 20 ▼ 10 #298 in text editor keyword 17 ▼ 22

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Paste as Markdown (v0.5.7.3)

64 2.83

(6)

User reviews

This extension worked exactly as advertised. I copied text from an email which included hyperlinks and pasted it into a Trello card where the links were preserved exactly as intended. Nicely done. Thank you.

Ch*****, 2022-01-13

Does what it says on the tin, does it well. Makes it easy to post the erotica I write to websites that only support markdown when pasting from rich text docs.

Ma*****, 2021-11-29

Great way to fill the gap when working with markdown inputs, thank you! Now I can copy anything into GitHub comments. I noticed a couple of little things that could be improved: - Multi-level lists seem to get flattened to a single level - A table wasn't converted to markdown. (but it remained as HTML which still displays fine in GitHub) The keyboard shortcut (Alt+C) is handy, but not advertised (please show it in the description above and in context menu if possible). It would be great to be able to customise the keyboard shortcut, it doesn't seem intuitive to me (on a Mac).

Da*****, 2021-10-21

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Risk impact

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Paste as Markdown requires very minimum permissions.

Risk impact analysis details

High Allows reading and modifying clipboard content, which can be sensitive, posing a moderate privacy risk.

Risk likelihood

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Paste as Markdown has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

High This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.
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