Paste Markdown as Rendered HTML

Tricks modern web editors (React, Notion, WordPress, etc) into accepting rendered HTML.
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// ==UserScript==
// @name         Paste Markdown as Rendered HTML
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.1.1
// @description  Tricks modern web editors (React, Notion, WordPress, etc) into accepting rendered HTML.
// @author       Tertium
// @match        *://*/*
// @grant        none
// @run-at       document-start
// @require      https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/marked/12.0.1/marked.min.js
// @license      MIT
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    // Fast check to ensure the text contains valid Markdown syntax
    const markdownRegex = /(?:^#{1,6}\s|^>|^\s*[-*+]\s|^\s*\d+\.\s|\*\*|__|\*|_|`|\[[^\]]+\]\([^)]+\))/m;

    document.addEventListener('paste', function(e) {
        // Prevent infinite loops from our own synthetic event
        if (e.isSyntheticMarkdownPaste) return;

        const clipboardData = e.clipboardData;
        if (!clipboardData) return;

        // 1. If you copied rich text (HTML) from another page, let it paste normally.
        if (clipboardData.types.includes('text/html')) {
            const htmlContent = clipboardData.getData('text/html');
            if (htmlContent && htmlContent.trim() !== '') return;
        }

        // 2. Get the plain text from the clipboard and verify it contains Markdown.
        const textData = clipboardData.getData('text/plain');
        if (!textData || !markdownRegex.test(textData)) return;

        // 3. Ensure we are pasting into a rich text editor.
        const activeEl = document.activeElement;
        const isRichText = activeEl && (
            activeEl.isContentEditable ||
            (activeEl.tagName === 'IFRAME' && activeEl.contentDocument && activeEl.contentDocument.designMode === 'on') ||
            (typeof activeEl.closest === 'function' && activeEl.closest('[contenteditable="true"]'))
        );

        if (!isRichText || activeEl.tagName === 'TEXTAREA' || activeEl.tagName === 'INPUT') {
            return;
        }

        // 4. Stop the browser's native pasting dead in its tracks
        e.preventDefault();
        e.stopPropagation();

        // 5. Clean text & Parse Markdown
        if (typeof marked === 'undefined') {
            console.error("Markdown parser not loaded.");
            return;
        }
        
        // This ensures 3+ empty lines are reduced to standard double lines (paragraphs)
        // while letting marked.js handle normal spaces naturally.
        const cleanText = textData.replace(/\r\n/g, '\n').replace(/\n{3,}/g, '\n\n');
        
        // Parse the markdown into HTML
        const renderedHtml = marked.parse(cleanText, { gfm: true });

        // 6. Create a brand new, fully populated DataTransfer object
        const fakeDt = new DataTransfer();
        fakeDt.setData('text/plain', cleanText);
        fakeDt.setData('text/html', renderedHtml);

        // 7. Generate a fake paste event carrying our new DataTransfer
        const pasteEvent = new ClipboardEvent('paste', {
            clipboardData: fakeDt,
            bubbles: true,
            cancelable: true,
            composed: true
        });
        
        pasteEvent.isSyntheticMarkdownPaste = true;

        let targetNode = e.target;
        if (targetNode.nodeType === Node.TEXT_NODE) targetNode = targetNode.parentNode;

        // 8. Dispatch it to trick JS Frameworks
        targetNode.dispatchEvent(pasteEvent);

        // 9. THE FALLBACK for basic content-editable boxes
        if (!pasteEvent.defaultPrevented) {
            if (activeEl.tagName === 'IFRAME') {
                activeEl.contentDocument.execCommand('insertHTML', false, renderedHtml);
            } else {
                document.execCommand('insertHTML', false, renderedHtml);
            }
        }

    }, { capture: true }); 
})();