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Save DEV.to as Markdown

Save exports DEV.to articles as clean Markdown — exactly how they were written, with code blocks, headings, and embedded media preserved.

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★★★★★ Chrome Web Store · 3 free saves per month · no account required

What Save captures from DEV.to

✓ Full article body with headings, code blocks, and lists intact
✓ Author name, handle, reading-time, and publish date
✓ Tags and canonical URL
✓ Inline images and embedded content as Markdown references

What gets stripped

× "Recommended posts" and author-follow rails
× Reactions and comment-count UI
× Sticky nav and sidebars

Save uses site-specific AI prompts to tell noise from content. The Markdown you get is optimised for note-taking apps (Obsidian, Notion) and AI context windows (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini).

How to save a DEV.to page as Markdown

Step 1

Install Save for Chrome

Grab the extension from the Chrome Web Store. Free, no account needed for the first 3 saves per month.
Step 2

Open any DEV.to page

Navigate to the page you want to save. Save auto-detects the site and picks the right extraction rule.
Step 3

Click the Save icon

Clean Markdown, instantly. Copy to clipboard or download as a .md file.

Install Save for Chrome

Example: DEV.to → Markdown

Point the extension at https://dev.to/username/example-article and the output is a structured Markdown file with frontmatter metadata, clean headings, and lossless content — ready to drop into Obsidian, Notion, or an LLM prompt.

--- devto.md ---

# DEV.to · sample content

source: https://dev.to/username/example-article

> Save exports DEV.to articles as clean Markdown — exactly how they were written, with code blocks, headings, and embedded media preserved.

## What was captured

- Full article body with headings, code blocks, and lists intact

- Author name, handle, reading-time, and publish date

- Tags and canonical URL