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A Grunt plugin for html.md which converts HTML files to valid Markdown files.
Getting Started
This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.0
.
If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:
npm install grunt-html-md --save-dev
Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:
grunt;
md task
Run this task with the grunt md
command.
Task targets, files and options may be specified according to the grunt Configuring tasks guide.
Options
absolute
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Parse all links and images with absolute URLS.
base
Type: String
Default: file://
+ current working directory
Resolve all relative links and images from this URL. This option is only applicable when the
absolute
option is enabled.
inline
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Generate links using the inline style. For exampe; [html.md](http://neocotic.com/html.md)
.
longExt
Type: Boolean
Default: false
Create Markdown files with the long file extension (i.e. .markdown
).
Usage examples
md:convert:src: 'path/to/*.html'options:output: 'path/to/dest'convertBase:src:'path/to/source.html''path/to/more/*.html'options:base: 'http://neocotic.com/html.md'output: 'path/to/dest'absolute: true
If no output
option is specified then the Markdown file will be created in the same directory as
the source file.
Windows
A lot of care has been put in to ensure html.md runs well on Windows. Unfortunately, one of the
dependencies of the jsdom library, which we depend on to emulate a DOM within the node.js
environment, does not build well on Windows systems since it's built using "native modules" that
are compiled during installation. Contextify, the inherited dependency in question, is used to
run <script>
contents safely in a sandbox environment and is required to properly parse DOM
objects into valid Markdown.
Fortunately, the author has documented some techniques to get it building on your Windows system in a Windows installation guide.
Bugs
If you have any problems with this plugin or would like to see the changes currently in development you can do so here;
https://github.com/neocotic/grunt-html-md/issues
Questions?
Take a look at code in tasks/md.js
to get a better understanding of what is going on.
If that doesn't help, feel free to follow me on Twitter, @neocotic.
Also, if you want more information or examples of using the html.md library without Grunt, please visit the main project's homepage;