Thumbnails and markdown for PDFs, docs, slides, videos, code, and websites. Just prepend the URL. No keys, no signup.
preview.thedrive.ai/{url}
/{url}?w=800&h=600&q=90
/{url}?nocache=true
<img src="https://preview.thedrive.ai/{url}">
<meta property="og:image" content="https://preview.thedrive.ai/{url}">
/{url}?format=mp4 or ?format=gif&duration=3
30/min · need more?
600x400 JPEG, q95
Turn any URL into clean markdown. PDFs, docs, spreadsheets, presentations, websites — rendered with a headless browser so JS-heavy pages work too.
1// website to markdown 2curl https://preview.thedrive.ai/md/thedrive.ai 3 4// pdf to markdown 5curl https://preview.thedrive.ai/md/arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762 6 7// docx to markdown 8curl https://preview.thedrive.ai/md/www.cte.iup.edu/cte/Resources/DOCX_TestPage.docx
preview.thedrive.ai/md/thedrive.ai
POST /api/v1/markdown/convert
-F "file=@doc.pdf"
-F "url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762"
/md/{url}?nocache=true
text/markdown; charset=utf-8
/api/v1/ endpoints
30/min (same as previews)