Converting HTML and rich-text to Markdown

If you copy and paste from a web page - including a full table - into a GitHub issue comment GitHub converts it to the corresponding Markdown for you. Really quick way to construct Markdown tables.

https://domchristie.github.io/turndown/ is an open source JavaScript library by Dom Christie that can convert HTML strings into Markdown strings. Code: https://github.com/domchristie/turndown - it used to be called to-markdown.

https://euangoddard.github.io/clipboard2markdown/ is a tool which lets you paste in rich-text and uses turndown to convert it for you directly in your browser.

2md, explained

https://2md.ca/ is another tool that does this, written in TypeScript. It's accompanied by a detailed essay explaining exactly how it works.

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Created 2020-05-09T11:19:27-07:00, updated 2020-09-01T16:54:03-07:00 · History · Edit