to-markdown

An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript.

The API is as follows:

toMarkdown(stringOfHTML);

Installation

Browser

Download the compiled script located at dist/to-markdown.js.

<script src="PATH/TO/to-markdown.js"></script>

<script>toMarkdown('<h1>Hello world!</h1>')</script>

Or with Bower:

$ bower install to-markdown

<script src="PATH/TO/bower_components/to-markdown/dist/to-markdown.js"></script>

<script>toMarkdown('<h1>Hello world!</h1>')</script>

Node.js

$ npm install to-markdown

var toMarkdown = require('to-markdown');
toMarkdown('<h1>Hello world!</h1>');

(Note it is no longer necessary to call .toMarkdown on the required module as of v1.)

Tests

to-markdown uses QUnit for testing. To run the tests in the browser, first make sure you have node.js/npm installed, then:

$ npm install --dev
$ bower install --dev

Then open test/test-runner.html.

To run in node.js:

$ npm install --dev
$ npm test

Licence

to-markdown is copyright © 2011-15 Dom Christie and released under the MIT license.