Convert Confluence pages to clean, portable Markdown — with images, draw.io diagrams, and PlantUML all included.

confluence2md [--output-path <dir>] <pageUrl>

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✨ What It Does

┌──────────────┐       ┌───────────────┐       ┌──────────────────┐
│ Confluence   │──────▶│ confluence2md │──────▶│   Markdown + 📁  │
│   Page URL   │       │               │       │   Local Assets   │
└──────────────┘       └───────────────┘       └──────────────────┘

confluence2md fetches a Confluence page via REST API and converts it to GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) with:

• 🖼️ Images — downloaded and stored locally in an assets directory

• 📊 PlantUML — source code extracted and embedded as ```plantuml fenced code blocks

• 🎨 draw.io — diagrams saved as .drawio.png with embedded XML (editable in the draw.io VS Code extension!). Multi-page diagrams produce one image per referenced page, and draw.io images rendered from included content such as Table Excerpt Include are downloaded from their source attachment page and saved locally the same way.

• 🅰 Text effects — Support for the strikethrough text effect

• 📋 Tables — preserved as GFM tables

• 🔗 Links — resolved relative to the Confluence base URL

• 🔗 Jira links — Confluence Jira issue macros are converted to simple Markdown links such as [DEMO-1234](https://jira.example.com/browse/DEMO-1234) without summary/status placeholder text.

• 📚 TOC macros — Confluence table-of-contents links are rewritten to Markdown heading anchors, so generated TOCs jump to the converted headings without inserting raw HTML anchors.

• ✅ Task lists — Confluence inline task lists are converted to GFM task list items, preserving checked items as - [x] and unchecked items as - [ ].

• 💬 Alert macros — Confluence info, panel, tip, note, and warning macros are converted to GitHub alert syntax:

  Confluence macro	GitHub alert
  info	[!IMPORTANT]
  panel	[!NOTE]
  tip	[!TIP]
  note	[!WARNING]
  warning	[!CAUTION]

• 🔽 Expand macros — Confluence expand macros are converted to collapsible <details> / <summary> HTML blocks (rendered natively by GitHub):

  <details>
  <summary>変更履歴/Change history</summary>
  
  … content …
  
  </details>

• 🔗 Google Drive Live Link macros — Confluence lref-gdrive-file macros are converted to plain Markdown links with the fixed text Google Drive Link, pointing at the macro's url parameter (e.g. [Google Drive Link](https://docs.google.com/...)).

• 💻 Code macros — Confluence code macros are converted to fenced Markdown code blocks with the optional language identifier preserved:

  ```c++
  int x = 1;
  ```

📦 Installation

Download the latest release from the Releases page according to your OS.

🔧 Configuration

Set the following environment variables before running:

Variable	Description	Example
CONFLUENCE2MD_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN	A Confluence Personal Access Token	NjQ2...
CONFLUENCE2MD_OUTPUT_PATH	Directory to write the output Markdown file (default: current directory)	out
CONFLUENCE2MD_DUMP_STATE_PATH	Directory to write diagnostic state and raw intermediate files	dumps
CONFLUENCE2MD_LOG_LEVEL	Log verbosity: DEBUG | INFO | WARNING | ERROR (default: INFO)	DEBUG
CONFLUENCE2MD_TABLE_CONVERSION	Table conversion mode: default | always (default: default)	always
CONFLUENCE2MD_REMOVE_STRIKETHROUGH_TEXT	Set to true to remove strikethrough text entirely	true

You can export them in your shell profile or pass them inline:

export CONFLUENCE2MD_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN="your-token-here"

💡 Tip: To generate a Personal Access Token, go to your Confluence profile → Settings → Personal Access Tokens → Create token.

🚀 Usage

Example

export CONFLUENCE2MD_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN="your-token-here"
confluence2md 'https://confluence.example.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=393229'

Options

Option	Description	Default
--output-path <dir>	Directory to write the output Markdown file	Current directory
--dump-state-path <dir>	Directory to write raw API, intermediate HTML dumps, and raw .drawio XML files	Not written
--log-level <level>	Log verbosity: DEBUG | INFO | WARNING | ERROR	INFO
--table-conversion <mode>	Table conversion mode: default | always	default
`--remove-strikethrough-text[=true	false]`	Remove strikethrough text entirely instead of converting to ~~text~~. Omitting the value implies true. When passing a value, the equals form is required (e.g. --remove-strikethrough-text=false).
--version	Print the version and exit	—

💡 --output-path takes precedence over CONFLUENCE2MD_OUTPUT_PATH. 💡 --dump-state-path takes precedence over CONFLUENCE2MD_DUMP_STATE_PATH. 💡 --log-level takes precedence over CONFLUENCE2MD_LOG_LEVEL. 💡 --table-conversion takes precedence over CONFLUENCE2MD_TABLE_CONVERSION. 💡 --remove-strikethrough-text takes precedence over CONFLUENCE2MD_REMOVE_STRIKETHROUGH_TEXT.

Table conversion modes

Mode	Behaviour
default	Converts Markdown-compatible tables to GFM, promoting the first row to a header when Confluence omits <thead>. Merged or nested tables are kept as readable raw HTML.
always	Uses the custom Confluence table plugin. All tables are converted to GFM, with colspan/rowspan expanded (merged cells are split; the value is placed in the top-left cell only).

Log levels

Level	Output
DEBUG	Every processing step (most verbose)
INFO	Key milestones (default)
WARNING	Warnings and recoverable errors only
ERROR	Fatal errors only (least verbose)

Output structure

out/
├── Page_Title.md                    # 📄 Converted Markdown
└── Page_Title_assets/               # 📁 Downloaded assets
    ├── image_1.png
    ├── diagram.drawio.png           # 🎨 Editable in draw.io!
    ├── diagram-<aspectHash>.drawio.png  # Per-page image for multi-page diagrams
    ├── external-diagram.drawio.png  # draw.io rendered from included external-page content
    └── ...

When --dump-state-path dumps is specified, diagnostic state and raw .drawio XML files are written under the dump directory:

dumps/
├── content.json
├── export.html
├── storage.html
├── *.drawio
├── rewrite_drawio.html
├── rewrite_image.html
├── rewrite_plantuml.html
└── rewrite_macros.html

🧑‍💻 Appendix

Supported URL formats

confluence2md automatically detects the page from various Confluence URL formats:

Format	Example
pageId query param	https://confluence.example.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1082335934
Cloud /spaces/.../pages/ path	https://confluence.example.com/wiki/spaces/DEMO/pages/9876543/My+Page
Classic /display/ path	https://confluence.example.com/display/DEMO/My+Page+Title
spaceKey + title params	https://confluence.example.com/pages/viewpage.action?spaceKey=DEMO&title=My+Page

🛠️ Tech Stack

Component	Technology
Runtime	Rust (stable, 2024 edition) with Tokio
Language	Rust
HTML parsing	htmd + markup5ever_rcdom
HTTP client	reqwest with rustls (bundled Mozilla WebPKI roots + OS certificate store)
CLI parsing	clap (derive macros)
API	Confluence REST API v1