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president on Feb 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text

Awesome project. Is there anything that can actually convert HTML to Markdown though?

loevborg on Feb 13, 2013 | [–]

The wonderful pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#general-options) can, along with many other things.

janerik on Feb 13, 2013 | | [–]

I use pandoc[1] for this.

  curl -s example.com | pandoc -f html -t markdown -

[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

fiddlosopher on Feb 13, 2013 | | [–]

This works too:

    pandoc -t markdown http://example.com

janerik on Feb 13, 2013 | | | [–]

Nice. Didn't know pandoc can directly read from an URL, even easier.

gridaphobe on Feb 13, 2013 | [–]

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

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