Markdownify MCP Server

What it does

Markdownify is an MCP server that converts almost any file type and web content into clean, readable Markdown. It handles PDFs, images (with OCR), audio files (with transcription), DOCX documents, spreadsheets, presentations, YouTube video transcripts, Bing search results, and general web pages.

Tools

• youtube-to-markdown — Extract transcript and metadata from YouTube videos
• pdf-to-markdown — Convert PDF files to Markdown text
• bing-search-to-markdown — Fetch Bing search results as Markdown
• webpage-to-markdown — Extract content from any URL as Markdown
• image-to-markdown — OCR images and convert to Markdown with metadata
• audio-to-markdown — Transcribe audio files to Markdown with text
• docx-to-markdown — Convert Word documents to Markdown
• xlsx-to-markdown — Convert Excel spreadsheets to Markdown tables
• pptx-to-markdown — Convert PowerPoint presentations to Markdown
• get-markdown-file — Retrieve existing Markdown files from a configured directory

Installation

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "markdownify": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["{ABSOLUTE PATH TO FILE HERE}/dist/index.js"],
      "env": {
        "UV_PATH": "/path/to/uv"
      }
    }
  }
}

Build from source:

git clone https://github.com/zcaceres/markdownify-mcp
cd markdownify-mcp
pnpm install && pnpm run build

Supported hosts

• Claude Desktop (confirmed)
• VS Code Copilot (confirmed)
• Cursor (implied by Desktop App reference)