qstrip

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A fast Markdown stripper with a C backend.

Installation

pip install qstrip

Usage

from qstrip import strip_markdown

with open('markdown_file.md', 'r') as f:
    content = f.read()

stripped_content = strip_markdown(content)
print(stripped_content)

# If the input markdown could potentially be very long, you can specify a timeout
try:
    stripped_content = strip_markdown(content, timeout=2) # 2 second timeout
except TimeoutError:
    stripped_content = None

Current and planned features

Strip headings
Strip bold tags
Strip italic tags
Strip strikethrough tags
Strip code blocks
Strip inline code
Strip links
Strip images
Strip tables
Handle images inside links
Strip lists
Strip blockquotes
Strip horizontal rules
Strip footnotes
Strip reference links
Handle escape sequences
Support other markup formats (e.g., reStructuredText, HTML/XML)

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Source distribution for qstrip 0.2.0
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