Mark Down

Full Title or Meme

It is a trend to move from MediaWiki formats to Mark Down. This is a entry on how to do that.

Solutions

• Also see wiki Pandoc

Python

convert web page text to Markdown, you can use code-based tools that extract and transform HTML into clean Markdown. Here are a few practical options:

🐍 Python (with html2text) bash pip install html2text python import html2text import requests

url = "https://example.com" html = requests.get(url).text markdown = html2text.html2text(html)

print(markdown) This fetches the page and converts its HTML to Markdown.

JavaScript (Node.js with turndown)
bash
npm install turndown axios
js
const TurndownService = require('turndown');
const axios = require('axios');

axios.get('https://example.com').then(response => {
 const turndownService = new TurndownService();
 const markdown = turndownService.turndown(response.data);
 console.log(markdown);
});

 another soruce
Here is a Python script using the html2text library to convert web text (HTML) into Markdown format:

import html2text

def convert_html_to_markdown(html_content):
   # Initialize the html2text converter
   converter = html2text.HTML2Text()
   # Configure the converter to ignore links if needed
   converter.ignore_links = False
   # Convert HTML to Markdown
   markdown_content = converter.handle(html_content)
   return markdown_content

1. Example usage

html_content = """

Welcome

This is an example of HTML to Markdown conversion.

<a href="https://example.com">Visit Example</a>

"""

markdown = convert_html_to_markdown(html_content)

print(markdown)

Steps to Use:

Install the html2text library if you don't already have it:

pip install html2text

Replace the html_content variable with your web text (HTML).

Run the script to get the Markdown output.

This script is simple, efficient, and works well for most HTML-to-Markdown conversion tasks.

Online Tools If you prefer not to code, try:

• Code Beautify’s HTML to Markdown Converter*
• [https://bing.com/search?q=code+to+convert+web+text+to+markdown Monkt’s Webpage to Markdown tool

Microsoft

open-sourced MarkItDown, a Python library that lets you convert any document to Markdown. Huge for LLMs.

It supports: • PDF • PowerPoint • Word • Excel • Images (EXIF metadata and OCR) • Audio (EXIF metadata and speech transcription) • HTML • Text-based formats (CSV, JSON, XML) • ZIP files (iterates over contents)

Just use : 
!pip install markitdown

Repo: https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Rules

Category >> tags: ["animals", "Chicago", "zoos"] - moves from bottom in MedaiWiki to top