html2md (repository archived)

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• html2md - HTML to Markdown converter

• Usage

  • $ html2md
  • Examples
    • Simplest form
    • Using goquery
  • The options and plugins
    • Testing the new table plugins
  • Credits
    • Credits
    • Similar Projects

• Install Debian/Ubuntu package

• Download/install binaries

  • The binary executables
  • Distro package
  • Debian package

• Install Source

• Author

• Contributors

html2md - HTML to Markdown converter

The html2md makes use of https://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 1.5.0 built on 2024-02-10
Copyright (C) 2020-2024, 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]
-x, --excl Excluding CSS/goquery selectors --xc Excluding all children nodes -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 --opt-escape-mode Option EscapeMode --plugin-br-to-newline Plugin BrToNewline -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.my-3"
[go](http://github.com/topics/go"Topic: go")[html](http://github.com/topics/html"Topic: html")[markdown](http://github.com/topics/markdown"Topic: markdown")[golang](http://github.com/topics/golang"Topic: golang")[converter](http://github.com/topics/converter"Topic: converter")[html-to-markdown](http://github.com/topics/html-to-markdown"Topic: html-to-markdown")[goquery](http://github.com/topics/goquery"Topic: goquery")

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~~
$ echo'<p>Lorem Ipsum:</p><p style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PifPVQOFyZI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p>'| ./html2md -i --plugin-youtube
Lorem Ipsum:
[![YouTube video player](https://img.youtube.com/vi/PifPVQOFyZI/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PifPVQOFyZI)

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
+

Credits

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.

Install Debian/Ubuntu package

sudo apt install -y html2md

Download/install binaries

• The latest binary executables are available as the result of the Continuous-Integration (CI) process.
• I.e., they are built automatically right from the source code at every git release by GitHub Actions.
• There are two ways to get/install such binary executables
  • Using the binary executables directly, or
  • Using packages for your distro

The binary executables

• The latest binary executables are directly available under
  https://github.com/suntong/html2md/releases/latest
• Pick & choose the one that suits your OS and its architecture. E.g., for Linux, it would be the html2md_verxx_linux_amd64.tar.gz file.
• Available OS for binary executables are
  • Linux
  • Mac OS (darwin)
  • Windows
• If your OS and its architecture is not available in the download list, please let me know and I'll add it.
• The manual installation is just to unpack it and move/copy the binary executable to somewhere in PATH. For example,

tar -xvf html2md_*_linux_amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv -v html2md_*_linux_amd64/html2md /usr/local/bin/
rmdir -v html2md_*_linux_amd64

Distro package

• Packages available for Linux distros are
  • Alpine Linux
  • Debian
  • RedHat

The repo setup instruction url has been given above. For example, for Debian --

Debian package

curl -1sLf \
'https://dl.cloudsmith.io/public/suntong/repo/setup.deb.sh' \
| sudo -E bash
# That's it. You then can do your normal operations, like
sudo apt update
apt-cache policy html2md
sudo apt install -y html2md

Install Source

To install the source code instead:

go install github.com/suntong/html2md@latest

Author

Tong SUN

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