html-to-md-cli

CLI tool to convert HTML to Markdown. Uses regex-based parsing — no external DOM libraries.

Install

npm install -g html-to-md-cli

Usage

# From file
html2md -f page.html

# From URL
html2md --url https://example.com

# From stdin
cat page.html | html2md --stdin

# Save to file
html2md -f page.html -o output.md

# GitHub Flavored Markdown (tables)
html2md -f page.html --gfm

Supported Tags

| HTML | Markdown | |------|----------| | <h1>–<h6> | #–###### | | <p> | Paragraph | | <a href> | [text](url) | | <img src alt> | ![alt](src) | | <strong>, <b> | **bold** | | <em>, <i> | *italic* | | <code> | `code` | | <pre><code> | Fenced code block | | <ul>, <ol>, <li> | Lists (nested) | | <blockquote> | > quote | | <table> | GFM table (with --gfm) | | <hr> | --- | | <br> | Line break |

Script and style tags are automatically stripped.

Options

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | -f, --file <path> | Input HTML file | | -u, --url <url> | Fetch and convert URL | | -o, --output <path> | Write to file (default: stdout) | | --stdin | Read from stdin | | --gfm | Enable GFM tables | | -V, --version | Show version | | -h, --help | Show help |

License

MIT