TOC

• html2md - HTML to Markdown converter
• Usage
  • $ html2md
• Examples
  • Simplest form
  • Using goquery
  • The options and plugins
  • Testing the new table plugins
• Download/Install
  • Download binaries
  • Install Source
• Credits & Authors
  • Credits
  • Similar Projects
  • Author(s) & Contributor(s)

html2md - HTML to Markdown converter

The html2md makes use of github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown to convert HTML into Markdown, which is using an HTML Parser to avoid the use of regexp as much as possible, which can prevent some weird cases and allows it to be used for cases where the input is totally unknown.

Usage

$ html2md

HTML to Markdown
Version 0.2.01 built on 2020-08-08
Copyright (C) 2020, Tong Sun

HTML to Markdown converter on command line

Usage:
  html2md [Options...]

Options:

  -h, --help                       display help information 
  -i, --in                        *The html/xml file to read from (or stdin) 
  -d, --domain                     Domain of the web page, needed for links when --in is not url 
  -s, --sel                        CSS/goquery selectors [=body]
  -v, --verbose                    Verbose mode (Multiple -v options increase the verbosity.) 

      --opt-heading-style          Option HeadingStyle 
      --opt-horizontal-rule        Option HorizontalRule 
      --opt-bullet-list-marker     Option BulletListMarker 
      --opt-code-block-style       Option CodeBlockStyle 
      --opt-fence                  Option Fence 
      --opt-em-delimiter           Option EmDelimiter 
      --opt-strong-delimiter       Option StrongDelimiter 
      --opt-link-style             Option LinkStyle 
      --opt-link-reference-style   Option LinkReferenceStyle 

  -A, --plugin-conf-attachment     Plugin ConfluenceAttachments 
  -C, --plugin-conf-code           Plugin ConfluenceCodeBlock 
  -F, --plugin-frontmatter         Plugin FrontMatter 
  -G, --plugin-gfm                 Plugin GitHubFlavored 
  -S, --plugin-strikethrough       Plugin Strikethrough 
  -T, --plugin-table               Plugin Table 
      --plugin-table-compat        Plugin TableCompat 
  -L, --plugin-task-list           Plugin TaskListItems 
  -V, --plugin-vimeo               Plugin VimeoEmbed 
  -Y, --plugin-youtube             Plugin YoutubeEmbed

Examples

Simplest form

$ html2md -i https://github.com/suntong/html2md | head -3
[Skip to content](#start-of-content)

[Homepage](https://github.com/)

Using goquery

The most useful feature is to use and pass a goquery selection to filter for the content you want.

$ html2md -i https://github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown -s "div.BorderGrid-row.hide-sm.hide-md > div"

The options and plugins

Works as expected:

$ echo '<strong>Bold Text</strong>' | html2md -i
**Bold Text**

$ echo '<strong>Bold Text</strong>' | html2md -i --opt-strong-delimiter="__"
__Bold Text__


$ echo '<ul><li><input type=checkbox checked>Checked!</li><li><input type=checkbox>Check Me!</li></ul>' | html2md -i -G
- [x] Checked!
- [ ] Check Me!

$ echo 'Only <del>blue ones</del> <s> left</s>' | html2md -i --plugin-strikethrough
Only ~blue ones~ ~left~

Testing the new table plugins

$ cat $GOPATH/src/github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/testdata/TestPlugins/table/input.html | html2md -i -T | head -6
| Firstname | Lastname | Age |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jill | Smith | 50 |
| Eve | Jackson | 94 |
| Empty |  |  |
| End |

$ cat $GOPATH/src/github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/testdata/TestPlugins/table/input.html | html2md -i -T --domain example.com | diff -wU 1 $GOPATH/src/github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/testdata/TestPlugins/table/output.table.golden -
---
@@ -41 +41,2 @@
 | `var` | b | c |
\ No newline at end of file
+

$ cat $GOPATH/src/github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/testdata/TestPlugins/table/input.html | html2md -i --plugin-table-compat | head -6
Firstname · Lastname · Age

Jill · Smith · 50

Eve · Jackson · 94

$ cat $GOPATH/src/github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/testdata/TestPlugins/table/input.html | html2md -i --plugin-table-compat --domain example.com | diff -wU 1 $GOPATH/src/github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown/testdata/TestPlugins/table/output.tablecompat.golden -
---
@@ -41 +41,2 @@
 `var` · b · c
\ No newline at end of file
+

Download/Install

Download binaries

• The latest binary executables are available right under the github release page
  https://github.com/suntong/html2md/releases
  as the result of the Continuous-Integration process.
• I.e., they are built during every git tagged push, automatically by GitHub Actions, right from the source code, truely WYSIWYG.
• The .deb, .rpm and .apk packages are readily available, as well as the executables for other Linux and Windows as well.
• Pick & choose the binary executable that suits your OS and its architecture. E.g., for Linux, it would most probably be the html2md_ver_linux_amd64.tar.gz file.
• Unzip it and put the executable somewhere in the PATH, after downloading it.

Install Source

To install the source code instead:

go get github.com/suntong/html2md

Credits & Authors

Credits

• Johannes Kaufmann's html-to-markdown that does the heavy lifting behind the scene.

Similar Projects

• turndown (js), a very good library written in javascript.
• lunny/html2md, which is using regex instead of goquery, which exhibits a few edge cases which prompted github.com/JohannesKaufmann/html-to-markdown
• jaytaylor/html2text, which is not converting to markdown but plain text.

Author(s) & Contributor(s)

Tong SUN

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