Is there any way to convert Wikitext to Markdown in python?

python mediawiki markdown text-processing
Ed L picture Ed L · Feb 12, 2011 · Viewed 7.7k times · Source

Is there a python library which takes wikitext (as used in mediawiki) input and converts it to markdown?

Answer

wikier picture wikier · Jun 14, 2012

Since is something that I need, I packaged both together:

http://bitbucket.org/wikier/mw2md

So now it's easier to perform both tasks.

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