Milian Wolff

Update: Use Markdownify, it’s the successor to html2text.

I changed my html2text.php function and it now supports non markdownable elements better. Previously something like <p class="foobar">...</p> would have resulted in <p>...</p>. Now these elements (which could be ported to markdown) will be left in plain html.

Additionally I made some changes which should lead to an improved performance.

Download

Get it while it’s hot: html2text.php 1.1 (.tar.gz ~ 120.9 KB)

Known Bugs

Yes, there are some, which I’ll try to fix in the next days (note: to better point out the bugs I just write what happens if you convert html to markdown to html):

• Also if the parent element (e.g. <table>) gets parsed and a child <tr>,<td> or<th> has attributes they will be ignored and dropped. Workaround: Add a attribute to the parent element (e.g. a class / id).

• If you give a single <li> element in the middle of a list some attributes it wont lose them, but will produce not well formed html:

  <ul><li>abc</li> <li class="foo">bar</li> </ul>

  Will result in:

  <ul> <li>abc <li class="foo">bar</li></li> </ul>

• <pre><code some="attrib"> will result in <pre><code><code some="attrib">

For more information read the bottom of the html2text.php site