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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"]
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+
+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](https://pypi.org/project/markdownify/).
+
+I used Nix Shell to install it:
+
+```bash
+nix-shell -p python311Packages.markdownify
+```
+
+And to do the conversion I just did:
+
+```bash
+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.
+