pyhtml2md 1.5.4

Transform your HTML into clean, easy-to-read markdown with pyhtml2md.

pyhtml2md

pyhtml2md provides a way to use the html2md C++ library in Python. html2md is a fast and reliable library for converting HTML content into markdown.

• Installation
• Basic usage
• Advanced usage
• Supported Tags
• License

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Installation

You can install using pip:

pip3 install pyhtml2md

Basic usage

Here is an example of how to use the pyhtml2md to convert HTML to markdown:

import pyhtml2md

markdown = pyhtml2md.convert("<h1>Hello, world!</h1>")
print(markdown)

The convert function takes an HTML string as input and returns a markdown string.

Advanced usage

pyhtml2md provides a Options class to customize the generation process.
You can find all information on the c++ documentation

Here is an example:

import pyhtml2md

options = pyhtml2md.Options()
options.splitLines = False

converter = pyhtml2md.Converter("<h1>Hello Python!</h1>", options)
markdown = converter.convert()
print(markdown)
print(converter.ok())

Supported Tags

pyhtml2md supports the following HTML tags:

Tag	Description	Comment
a	Anchor or link	Supports the href, name and title attributes.
b	Bold
blockquote	Indented paragraph
br	Line break
cite	Inline citation	Same as i.
code	Code
dd	Definition data
del	Strikethrough
dfn	Definition	Same as i.
div	Document division
em	Emphasized	Same as i.
h1	Level 1 heading
h2	Level 2 heading
h3	Level 3 heading
h4	Level 4 heading
h5	Level 5 heading
h6	Level 6 heading
head	Document header	Ignored.
hr	Horizontal line
i	Italic
img	Image	Supports src, alt, title attributes.
li	List item
meta	Meta-information	Ignored.
ol	Ordered list
p	Paragraph
pre	Preformatted text	Works only with code.
s	Strikethrough	Same as del.
span	Grouped elements	Does nothing.
strong	Strong	Same as b.
table	Table	Tables are formatted!
tbody	Table body	Does nothing.
td	Table data cell	Uses align from th.
tfoot	Table footer	Does nothing.
th	Table header cell	Supports the align attribute.
thead	Table header	Does nothing.
title	Document title	Same as h1.
tr	Table row
u	Underlined	Uses HTML.
ul	Unordered list

License

pyhtml2md is licensed under The MIT License (MIT)