Convert HTML to Markdown

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One of my biggest mistakes with this blog was not finding a WordPress plugin that would allow me to write my posts with markdown; to this day I still need to write posts in “Visual” mode and then manually convert the post to HTML for “Text” mode. One of these days I want to convert existing posts to Markdown and then enable a plugin that will convert Markdown to HTML. This painful process made me ask myself: is there a way I can use Node.js JavaScript to convert HTML to Markdown? There is, and it’s called Turndown by Dom Christie.

Convert HTML to Markdown with Node.js

Start by installing Turndown:


yarn add turndown


Then use Turndown’s simple API to convert HTML to markdown:


var TurndownService = require('turndown');
var turndownService = new TurndownService();

var markdown = turndownService.turndown(`

Title​

DavidWalsh.Name is awesome!


`);

/*
Title
=====

[DavidWalsh.Name](https://davidwalsh.name) is awesome!
*/


You can use the interactive Turndown demo to experiment with its capabilities. Turndown has a number of options and allows you to use filters to keep elements you believe could be at risk for improper conversion.

Most developers look for a Markdown to HTML solution so it’s rate to find myself in a position to need to convert HTML to Markdown. I look forward to migrating my site’s content to Markdown so that writing posts is much less stressful in the future!

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