Introduction
Turn the whole universe into markdown.
allmd is a CLI tool that converts virtually any content type into clean, AI-formatted markdown.
Supported Formats
allmd ships with 12 built-in converters:
- Web pages — fetch any URL and convert to clean markdown via Firecrawl
- YouTube videos — extract transcripts with timestamps
- PDFs — parse text content from PDF files
- Google Docs — convert published Google Docs
- Video/Audio — transcribe media files using Whisper with speaker diarization
- Images — describe images using GPT vision
- Word documents — convert
.docxfiles - EPUB ebooks — convert
.epubfiles - CSV/TSV — convert tabular data to markdown tables
- PowerPoint — convert
.pptxpresentations - Tweets — capture tweets/X posts
- RSS/Atom feeds — convert feed entries
Key Features
- Auto-detection — pass any URL or file, allmd figures out the type
- AI formatting — output polished with GPT for consistent, readable markdown
- Interactive mode — run with no arguments to pick a converter
- Multiple outputs — file, directory, clipboard, or stdout
- Parallel processing — convert multiple files simultaneously
- YAML frontmatter — metadata with title, source, date, and format-specific fields
- Agent skill — works with Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI coding assistants