Re:Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python
by gaojiuli on Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:21PM
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Tomd is a python tool. Pandoc is a haskell tool.
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Re:Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python
by cyphar on Sunday May 28, 2017 @11:43PM
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Yes. Though pandoc handles more formats and doesn't parse HTML using regex. And it supports more features.
In general the language something is written in isn't necessarily a benefit by itself. Is there a reason why you prefer Python when there already exists another tool written in another language?
Re:Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python
by gaojiuli on Monday May 29, 2017 @12:07AM
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When crawling online articles such as news, blogs, etc. I want to save them in markdown files but not databases.
For instance, I can download my wordpress blogs as markdown files with requests and tomd in a single python script without configering another language environment.
Re:Show HN: Convert HTML to markdown with python
by confounded on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:30PM
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You don't need a Haskell interpreter, it's shipped as a compiled CLI by most good package managers. There are also Python wrappers. Regardless, I'm very glad your tool is working, it looks cool.