$ text2site_

Web page to plain text, without the noise

A modern article arrives wrapped in navigation, cookie banners, related-post grids, newsletter overlays and a megabyte of script. text2site throws all of it away and hands back the part you came for: the words. The result is a .txt file you can paste into an AI prompt, drop into your notes, send to an e-reader, or keep in an archive that will still open in thirty years.

How it works

1. You paste a URL and the server fetches that page once.
2. Mozilla's Readability engine — the one behind Firefox Reader View — identifies the main article and discards the rest.
3. The article is converted to plain text: headings underlined, lists bulleted, quotes prefixed, body hard-wrapped to 80 columns.
4. In-article links become numbered markers such as [1], collected into a reference list at the bottom, so nothing is lost.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes — no account, no payment. Each visitor gets ten conversions every 24 hours, which is what keeps the server cheap enough to leave open to everyone.

Do you store the pages I convert?

No. The page is fetched, converted and returned to your browser. Nothing is written to disk. There is no database.

Which pages work best?

Articles, blog posts, documentation and news stories — anything built around a body of text. Pages that render entirely in JavaScript, hide behind a paywall or require a login cannot be read, and you will get a clear error instead of a half-empty file.

What about the links?

Each distinct address is numbered once and reused, so an article that cites the same source five times still shows [1] five times rather than five different numbers.