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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, no analytics and no tracking.

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.