The web has gone soft. Rounded corners, drop shadows, pop-ups begging for your email address — the modern page is more circus tent than broadsheet. Against this tide of ornament, Paperboy deploys four sharp instruments for developers who demand clean markdown and refuse the clutter.
The desktop editor puts a fast, local writing desk on your machine — native file dialogs, no network required. The Chrome side panel extension reads any open page, strips the dross, and hands you copy-ready markdown before the ink dries.
The command-line edition serves the correspondent at the terminal: one command converts any file to markdown, another crawls a whole site into a single, indexable document. And the embeddable widget plants a web-to-markdown toggle on any site that will have it — a single line of code, and the press is running.
The web widget below is the real bundle — the same script you would drop on your own site. Click its toggle to convert the article into markdown.
The widget’s toggle reads this article’s DOM, runs Mozilla’s Readability and Turndown in your browser, and hands back markdown with headings, paragraphs, and structure intact.
Nothing is uploaded; nothing is transmitted; nothing requires a server. Copy the markdown and carry it where you like.