md2clip

Pipe markdown into your terminal, get HTML in your clipboard with proper text/html MIME type.

Apps like Notion, Slack, Mail, and Google Docs will paste it as rich text.

Install

npm install -g @fmontes/md2clip

Usage

echo "**bold** and _italic_" | md2clip
cat README.md | md2clip
pbpaste | md2clip   # convert clipboard markdown to HTML

Output is also printed to stdout, so you can pipe further:

cat doc.md | md2clip | less

Platform support

| Platform | Method | MIME type | |----------|--------|-----------| | macOS | Swift + NSPasteboard | public.html | | Linux | xclip / xsel / wl-copy | text/html | | Windows | PowerShell + System.Windows.Forms | HTML format |

macOS requirement

Requires Xcode Command Line Tools for proper HTML MIME type:

xcode-select --install

Without it, falls back to pbcopy (plain text only).

Linux requirement

Install one of: xclip, xsel, or wl-copy.

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install xclip

License

MIT