diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index a8c8af5..92c42b3 100755
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -72,11 +72,11 @@ app.post('/', function(req, res) {
 		res.status(400).send("Please provide a POST parameter called html");
 	} else {	  	
 		try {
-		let document = new JSDOM(html);
-		let markdown = process_dom(url, document, res, inline_title, ignore_links);
-		send_headers(res);
-		res.send(markdown);
-		} catch (error) {
+			let document = new JSDOM(html);
+			let markdown = process_dom(url, document, res, inline_title, ignore_links);
+			send_headers(res);
+			res.send(markdown);
+		 } catch (error) {
 			res.status(400).send("Could not parse that document");
 		}
 	}
@@ -98,11 +98,12 @@ function process_dom(url, document, res, inline_title, ignore_links) {
 		res.header("X-Title", encodeURIComponent(title.textContent));
 	let reader = new Readability(document.window.document);
 	let readable = reader.parse().content;
-	let replacement = {placeholders:[], tables:[]}
-	readable = format_tables(readable, replacement);
+	let replacements = []
+	readable = format_tables(readable, replacements);
+	readable = format_code_blocks(readable, replacements);
 	let markdown = service.turndown(readable);
-	for (let i=0;i<replacement.placeholders.length;i++) {
-		markdown = markdown.replace(replacement.placeholders[i], replacement.tables[i]);
+	for (let i=0;i<replacements.length;i++) {
+		markdown = markdown.replace(replacements[i].placeholder, replacements[i].replacement);
 	}
 	let result = (url) ? common_filters.filter(url, markdown, ignore_links) : markdown;
 	if (inline_title && title) {
@@ -136,17 +137,41 @@ function read_apple_url(url, res, inline_title, ignore_links) {
 }
 
 function format_tables(html, replacements) {
+	const start = replacements.length;
 	const tables = html.match(/(<table[^>]*>(?:.|\n)*?<\/table>)/gi);
 	if (tables) {
 		for (let t=0;t<tables.length;t++) {
 			let table = tables[t];
 			let markdown = table_to_markdown.convert(table);
 			let placeholder = "urltomarkdowntableplaceholder"+t+Math.random();
-			replacements.placeholders[t] = placeholder;
-			replacements.tables[t] = markdown;
+			replacements[start+t] = { placeholder: placeholder, replacement: markdown};
 			html = html.replace(table, "<p>"+placeholder+"</p>");
 		}
 	}
 	return html;
 }
 
+function format_code_blocks(html, replacements) {
+	const start = replacements.length;
+	const code_blocks = html.match(/(<pre[^>]*>(?:.|\n)*?<\/pre>)/gi);
+	if (code_blocks) {
+		for (let cb=0;cb<code_blocks.length;cb++) {
+			let code_block = code_blocks[cb];
+			let markdown = code_block_to_markdown(code_block);
+			let placeholder = "urltomarkdowncodeblockplaceholder"+cb+Math.random();
+			replacements[start+cb] = { placeholder: placeholder, replacement: markdown};
+			html = html.replace(code_block, "<p>"+placeholder+"</p>");
+		}
+	}
+	return html;
+}
+
+function code_block_to_markdown (html) {
+	const match_pre = /^<pre[^>]*>([\s\S]*)<\/pre>$/ig.exec(html);
+	let inner_html = match_pre[1];
+	const match_code = /^\s*<code[^>]*>[\r\n]*([\s\S]*)<\/code>\s*$/ig.exec(inner_html);
+	if (match_code && match_code[1])
+		inner_html = match_code[1];
+	const markdown = "```\n"+inner_html+"\n```\n";
+	return markdown;
+}