Converting HTML to Markdown

I often need to convert my legacy HTML files to markdown.

There are couple of ways of accomplishing this using:

• domchristie/to-markdown - Using node.js
• xijo/reverse_markdown - Using a ruby gem
• thephpleague/html-to-markdown - Using php
• jgm/pandoc - This does a ton of stuff! It is a universal markup converter http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc

xijo/reverse_markdown is very convenient because it works with a cli right out of the box!

Installation is straight forward using:

sudo gem install reverse_markdown

Converting html to markdown is equally straight forward using:

reverse_markdown Notes.html > Notes.md

For more info on pandoc, check out my other blog post ... Converting a docx document to PDF