Convert HTML back to Markdown for editing in wmd

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/235224

  •  04-07-2019
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Question

I am curious to do what happens when you edit a post on this site.

I am using wmd for my markdown editor, of course when I goto edit, I get the HTML it generated not the markdown like on stackoverflow. Now, is there a way I can store both? or is it reliable enough to simply convert the HTML back to markdown to show in the wmd editor?

Thanks!

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Solution

Look at the optionsExample.html in your WMD distribution. There's an option to send the result to the server as Markdown.

OTHER TIPS

If you want to convert HTML to Markdown in batch, I can recommend Aaron Swartz’s html2text.py Python script with which you can just:

cat my.html | python html2text.py # outputs markdown

Edit 05/11/12: Nowadays I use Pandoc which is like a swiss-knife for text documents. Can convert html<>textile<>markdown<>epub<>pdf<>latex, etc.

As Chris notes, you can send Markdown to the server so you can store it there as such. I started trying to use MarkdownJ to convert on the server-side, but it doesn't (at the time of this writing) convert images to HTML correctly and so I ended up going with Java 6 Scripting: Rhino engine + showdown.js. Since WMD uses showdown.js you get the same Markdown-to-HTML transformation. Works like a charm (for Java 6, anyway).

I have just know Markdownify (formerly html2text.php) that "writes texts in Markdown and save them in HTML. You won’t need a copy of the original Markdown input, since Markdownify can convert the saved HTML back to Markdown. And because page impressions are far more often than write actions, this gives you a simple way to increase your page’s performance. Another benefit for a CMS or similar software is that now only one format of text is saved — HTML. The user can now choose wether to write texts in plain HTML or use a full fledged Wysiwyg editor. And of course he can write in Markdown!"

Open source html to markdown converters written in JavaScript:

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