md-to-text-lite
A zero-dependency Python micro-tool to strip Markdown formatting and extract clean, readable plain text.
The Problem
When you scrape websites, process LLM outputs, or prepare documents for Text-to-Speech (TTS), you often end up with Markdown strings full of **bold**, [links](url), and # Headers. You just want the plain text, but importing heavy HTML/Markdown parsers like beautifulsoup4 or markdown just to strip text is overkill.
The Solution
md-to-text-lite uses pure standard library regex to intelligently strip markdown syntax while preserving the actual content. It runs in microseconds.
Installation
pip install md-to-text-lite
Usage
from md_to_text_lite import markdown_to_text
md_string = """
# Hello World
This is a **bold** statement with a [link](https://github.com).
* List item 1
* List item 2
"""
clean_text = markdown_to_text(md_string)
print(clean_text)
# Output:
# Hello World
# This is a bold statement with a link.
# List item 1
# List item 2
Features
- Zero Dependencies: Pure Python standard library (
re). - Intelligent Stripping: Keeps the alt-text of images and text of links, removes URLs.
- Code Blocks: Removes multi-line code blocks entirely (since you usually don't want to read code aloud or count it in word metrics).
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