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+++ title = "Converting HTML to Markdown using Markdownify" date = 2023-12-26

[taxonomies] tags = ["markdown"] categories = [ "TIL" ]

[extra] toc = true keywords = ["markdown", "html", "convert", "python", "nix"] +++

I had some HTML content that I wanted to convert to markdown.

The simplest tool I found to do this effectively was a python utility called Markdownify.

I used Nix Shell to install it:

nix-shell -p python311Packages.markdownify

And to do the conversion I just did:

markdownify myfile.html > myfile.md

where myfile.html is the name of the file I wanted to convert and myfile.md in the name of the markdown file it got converted to.