/convert/wikipedia

Save Wikipedia as Markdown

Save exports Wikipedia articles as clean Markdown — with section hierarchy, reference links, and tables preserved — in one click.

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What Save captures from Wikipedia

  • ✓ Full article body with all section headings at correct depth
  • ✓ Infobox data rendered as a Markdown table
  • ✓ Footnote references as inline links
  • ✓ "See also", "Notes", and "References" sections
  • ✓ Tables and image captions

What gets stripped

  • × Edit buttons, talk-page links, and page-tools
  • × Sidebar navigation and language switcher
  • × Fundraising banners

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 Wikipedia 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 Wikipedia 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.

Install Save for Chrome

Example: Wikipedia → Markdown

Point the extension at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown 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.

--- wikipedia.md ---
# Wikipedia · sample content
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
> Save exports Wikipedia articles as clean Markdown — with section hierarchy, reference links, and tables preserved — in one click.
## What was captured
- Full article body with all section headings at correct depth
- Infobox data rendered as a Markdown table
- Footnote references as inline links

FAQ — Wikipedia to Markdown

Does Save preserve Wikipedia's reference links?

Yes — footnote references are kept as inline Markdown links, and the References section is captured.

What about Wikipedia in other languages?

Save works on every language edition of Wikipedia. The extracted Markdown matches the language of the source article.

Are infoboxes preserved?

Yes — infoboxes render as Markdown tables at the top of the article.

Also works on

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

Save MDN Web Docs as Markdown
/convert/mdn/
Save arXiv as Markdown
/convert/arxiv/

Stop copy-pasting from Wikipedia.

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