From Medium to Markdown to Dev.to

Recently, I've been transferring my Medium posts to DEV.to, mainly for philosophical reasons 😇

One thing I love about Dev.to is that you write in plain markdown. Editing an article is then editing Markdown. Nothing simpler.

Medium to Markdown

Sadly, Medium doesn't give a simple way to get the markdown of your post.

Luckily mediumexporter from @xdamman is a very useful CLI tool.

You will need nodejs to use it. Nowadays, node comes with npx, no need to install mediumexporter globally nor set up a local working dir with it.

Simply, download your article with :

npx mediumexporter https://medium.com/your-medium-url > your_post.md

After executing that command, your Medium post is located in the current directory named your_post.md.

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Comments

[Mathew Chan]

Thanks for the recommendation!