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Re:Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text by president on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:45AM (#5214056)
Awesome project. Is there anything that can actually convert HTML to Markdown though?
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Re:Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text by loevborg on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:51AM (#5214100)
The wonderful pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#general-options) can, along with many other things.
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Re:Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text by janerik on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:48AM (#5214076)
I use pandoc[1] for this.

  curl -s example.com | pandoc -f html -t markdown -
[1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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Re:Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text by fiddlosopher on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:49PM (#5214467)
This works too:

    pandoc -t markdown http://example.com
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Re:Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text by janerik on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @01:06PM (#5214587)
Nice. Didn't know pandoc can directly read from an URL, even easier.
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Re:Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text by gridaphobe on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:48AM (#5214082)
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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