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Q&A How can I copy the ChatGPT answer as Markdown?

I haven't found ChatGPT (or similar systems) useful enough to have a solution specific to them, but for almost everything on the web, I use a browser extension called MarkDownload. You can grab it...

posted 5d ago by John C‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar John C‭ · 2025-04-13T21:57:38Z (5 days ago)
I haven't found ChatGPT (or similar systems) useful enough to have a solution specific to them, but for almost everything on the web, I use a browser extension called *MarkDownload*.  You can grab it for [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/markdownload/), [Google Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/markdownload-markdown-web/pcmpcfapbekmbjjkdalcgopdkipoggdi), [Microsoft Edge](https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/hajanaajapkhaabfcofdjgjnlgkdkknm) and [Safari](https://apple.co/3tcU0pD).

In fact, I grabbed the links from its [GitHub page](https://github.com/deathau/markdownload) *using* the add-on.  If you highlight text, then it'll limit the conversion to only that section.  If you don't highlight any text, it'll use some (mediocre) heuristics to guess where to find the main content of the page.

In either case, you open the add-on's little window, which, as I write this answer, it looks like the following...more or less.

![The MarkDownload popup, if faded, showing an option to include front/back template, followed by the page title, then this answer's Markdown, before a Download button](https://powerusers.codidact.com/uploads/520gn3kp5jx7p2kpgrmsavlal1pb)

Pardon the faded image.  The window apparently can't survive the loss of focus involved in taking screenshot.  In reality, it looks like a normal drop-down.

Anyway, from here - and you might notice that it did a pretty good job guessing where the content starts, in this case - you can either save the Markdown named after the page title or copy to paste it somewhere else.