Open source html-to-markdown projects

Every project in the registry tagged html-to-markdown, ranked by real GitHub adoption.

projects 9 combined stars ★ 223K refresh nightly
01 firecrawl ★ 198K

last push14 hours ago languageTypeScript licenseAGPL-3.0
02 turndown ★ 12K

🛏 An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript

last push16 days ago languageHTML licenseMIT
03 trafilatura ★ 7.1K

Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

last push4 days ago languagePython licenseApache-2.0
04 webclaw ★ 2.4K

Fast, local-first web content extraction for LLMs. Scrape, crawl, extract structured data — all from Rust. CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

last push20 hours ago languageRust licenseAGPL-3.0
05 crw ★ 1.2K

Fast, lightweight Firecrawl/Tavily alternative in Rust. Web scraper, crawler & search API with MCP server for AI agents. Drop-in Firecrawl-compatible API (/scra

last push2 days ago languageRust licenseAGPL-3.0
06 anymd ★ 1.1K

Any file → clean Markdown for AI agents: PDF, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, EPUB, HTML and web pages, images (OCR), audio and video (metadata, subtitles, transcripts

last push16 hours ago languageRust licenseMIT
07 siteone-crawler ★ 994

SiteOne Crawler is a cross-platform website crawler and analyzer for SEO, security, accessibility, and performance optimization—ideal for developers, DevOps, QA

last push1 months ago languageRust licenseMIT
08 deepcrawl ★ 696

100% free and full open-source edge Firecrawl alternative with better links extraction for agents - that you can deploy to cloudflare or vercel by yourself.

last push2 months ago languageTypeScript licenseMIT
09 reader ★ 561

Open source web infrastructure for AI. Scrape, crawl, and automate the web, clean markdown, browser sessions, ready for your agents.

last push28 days ago languageTypeScript licenseApache-2.0

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Frequently asked questions

How many open source html-to-markdown projects are there?

This registry tracks 9 projects tagged html-to-markdown, with 223,444 GitHub stars between them. The most-adopted is firecrawl at 197,942 stars.

Are these html-to-markdown projects free to use?

Yes — 9 of the 9 carry an explicit open-source licence across 3 distinct licences, so there is no licence fee. Where a project also sells a hosted or enterprise version, the self-hosted path remains free.

Which html-to-markdown project should I choose?

The list above is ranked by GitHub stars, but stars measure attention rather than fit. Check three things on each card: the licence (permissive versus copyleft), the language it is written in, and the last-push date — a high-star project that has not been pushed in a year is a liability.

Are these html-to-markdown projects still maintained?

9 of the 9 were pushed in the last 90 days, and every card shows its exact last-push date so you can see the rest. Sort your shortlist by that date before committing to a migration.