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Upmark

A HTML to Markdown converter.

Installation

> gem install upmark

Usage

In ruby:

require "upmark"
html = "<p>messenger <strong>bag</strong> skateboard</p>"
markdown = Upmark.convert(html)
puts markdown

From the command-line:

> upmark foo.html

You can also pipe poorly formatted HTML documents through tidy before piping them into upmark:

> cat bar.html | tidy -asxhtml -indent -quiet --show-errors 0 --show-warnings 0 --show-body-only 1 --wrap 0 | upmark

Features

Upmark will convert the following (arbitrarily nested) HTML elements to Markdown:

  • strong
  • em
  • p
  • a
  • h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
  • ul
  • ol
  • br

It will also pass through block and span-level HTML elements (e.g. table, div, span, etc) which aren't used by Markdown.

How it works

Upmark defines a parsing expression grammar (PEG) using the very awesome Parslet gem. This PEG is then used to convert HTML into Markdown in 4 steps:

  1. Parse the XHTML into an abstract syntax tree (AST).
  2. Normalize the AST into a nested hash of HTML elements.
  3. Mark the block and span-level subtrees which should be ignored (table, div, span, etc).
  4. Convert the AST leaves into Markdown.

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A HTML to Markdown converter.

Upmark has the skills to convert your HTML to Markdown.

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