Convert HTML back to Markdown for editing in wmd

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Ryan M picture Ryan M · Oct 24, 2008 · Viewed 8.2k times · Source

I am curious to do what happens when you edit a post on this site.

I am using wmd for my markdown editor, of course when I goto edit, I get the HTML it generated not the markdown like on stackoverflow. Now, is there a way I can store both? or is it reliable enough to simply convert the HTML back to markdown to show in the wmd editor?

Thanks!

Answer

kvz picture kvz · Oct 3, 2010

If you want to convert HTML to Markdown in batch, I can recommend Aaron Swartz’s html2text.py Python script with which you can just:

cat my.html | python html2text.py # outputs markdown

Edit 05/11/12: Nowadays I use Pandoc which is like a swiss-knife for text documents. Can convert html<>textile<>markdown<>epub<>pdf<>latex, etc.

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