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Python : How to convert markdown formatted text to text

I need to convert markdown text to plain text format to display summary in my website. I want the code in python.

Solution

  • The Markdown and BeautifulSoup (now called beautifulsoup4) modules will help do what you describe.

    Once you have converted the markdown to HTML, you can use a HTML parser to strip out the plain text.

    Your code might look something like this:

    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from markdown import markdown

html = markdown(some_html_string)
text = ''.join(BeautifulSoup(html).findAll(text=True))