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Save GitHub as Markdown

Save exports GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, and discussions as clean Markdown — preserving code blocks, tables, and linked references.

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What Save captures from GitHub

  • ✓ README body with code blocks, tables, and headings intact
  • ✓ Issue/PR title, body, status, and threaded comments
  • ✓ Discussion title + body + comments
  • ✓ Linked referenced issues and mentioned users
  • ✓ Labels, milestones, and assignees (as frontmatter)

What gets stripped

  • × GitHub chrome, sidebars, and navigation
  • × "Files changed" tab UI (file diffs themselves are kept when relevant)
  • × Reaction emoji summary rows

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 GitHub page as Markdown

  1. 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.

  2. Step 2

    Open any GitHub page

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

  3. Step 3

    Click the Save icon

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

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Example: GitHub → Markdown

Point the extension at https://github.com/example/repo/issues/123 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.

--- github.md ---
# GitHub · sample content
source: https://github.com/example/repo/issues/123
> Save exports GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, and discussions as clean Markdown — preserving code blocks, tables, and linked references.
## What was captured
- README body with code blocks, tables, and headings intact
- Issue/PR title, body, status, and threaded comments
- Discussion title + body + comments

FAQ — GitHub to Markdown

Does Save work on private GitHub repos?

Yes — Save uses your browser session. If you can read the page while logged in, Save can extract it.

Can Save handle GitHub Gists?

Yes. Single-file and multi-file gists are extracted with code blocks and language hints preserved.

What about GitHub Discussions?

Save captures discussion threads with nested replies, just like issues.

Also works on

Save supports 300+ sites with site-specific extraction rules. Here are a few close cousins of GitHub:

Save GitLab as Markdown
/convert/gitlab/
Save Stack Overflow as Markdown
/convert/stack-overflow/
Save DEV.to as Markdown
/convert/dev-to/
Save MDN Web Docs as Markdown
/convert/mdn/

Stop copy-pasting from GitHub.

Save gives you clean Markdown in one click. Free for 3 saves a month, $5.99/mo for unlimited.

Install Save for Chrome — Free See pricing