Copy Selection as Markdown

Copy title, URL, selection as Markdown

Install
Usage
Settings
Contributing
License
Acknowledgements
Privacy

Install

Usage

Right click and select:

when part of the page is selected: Copy Selection as Markdown
when user context-clicks in the page: Copy Title and URL as Markdown
when user context-clicks in the link: Copy Link as Markdown

Since v0.18.0, rich text (text/html) version of the selection will be copied to the clipboard as well. Almost all of users of this extension might be using plain text editor, but it should be useful for using with Slack.

Settings

The add-on have multiple configuration to suit your setup as follows. Set your preference by:

Click the menu button and choose Add-ons. The Add-ons Manager tab will open
In the Add-ons Manager tab, select the Extensions panel
Click Copy Selection as Markdown and click Preferences tab
Hit Save button on the top to apply changes (no restart required)

General

Prepend quote (>) to selection
Include link to source web page in the beginning of copied text
Enable experimental MathJax support
Disable link styling (like this (https://example.com) instead of [like this](https://example.com))

Shortcut Key

macOS: Command + Shift + E
Windows/Linux: Ctrl + Shift + E

To change shortcut key, click gear icon on top-right and click Manage Extension Shortcuts.

Markdown Styles

Enable GitHub Flavored Markdown (strikethrough, tables, and taskListItems) support
Use img tag for image instead of ![title](url for image)
Reduce padding spaces for list items
Replace <> with HTML entities

Heading style

Setext

Heading 1
=========
Heading 2
---------

ATX (default)
```
# Heading 1
## Heading 2
```

Bullet list marker

Minus (-) (default)
```
- one
- two
- three
```
Plus (+)
```
+ one
+ two
+ three
```
Asterisk (*)
```
* one
* two
* three
```

Code block style

Indented (default)
```
        let code = "indented";
```
Fenced
```
    ```
    code = "fenced";
    ```
```

Fence

Backticks (```) (default)

    ```
    let code = "fenced";
    ```

Tildes (~)

    ~~~
    let code = "fenced";
    ~~~

Em

Underline (_) (default)
```
_Em_
```
Asterisk (*)
```
*Em*
```

Strong

Underlines (__)
```
__Strong__
```
Asterisks (*) (default)
```
**Strong**
```

Link style

Inlined (default)
```
[Inlined](https://example.com)
```

Referenced

[Referenced][1]<br/>
[1]: https://example.com

Link reference style

Reference (default)

[Reference][1]

[1]: https://example.com

Collapsed

[Reference with collapsed style][]

[Reference with collapsed style]: https://example.com

Shortcut

[Reference with shortcut style]

[reference with shortcut style]: https://example.com

Advanced

Title Substitution -- line separated texts which will be removed from title text. If you add - Mozilla | MDN to the textbox, the copied text wil be:
- From [Add-ons - Mozilla | MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons)
- To [Add-ons](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons)

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

This extension is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Acknowledgements

Turndown, which does all the heavy lifting from HTML to markdown
Octicons clippy

Privacy

The add-on does not store any user data outside of the Firefox user profile. The conversion to markdown is solely done locally. The add-on never send user action/data to any server.

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