Pull the links out of a google doc and format them for use in Markdown. Works on a file that google docs has exported to html.

markdownify_links.py

import sys
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup, SoupStrainer

def use(link):
  return link.get('href', None) and link.text and not link.text.startswith('http')

def file_as_string(filename):
  with open(filename) as f:
    return f.read()
    
def main(filename):
  html = file_as_string(filename)    
  links = BeautifulSoup(html, parseOnlyThese=SoupStrainer('a'))
  links = filter(use, links)
  
  # print the link text
  for i, link in enumerate(links):
    print "[%s][%d]" % (link.text, i)
      
  print ""
  # print the index of links:
  for i, link in enumerate(links):
    try:
      print "[%d]: %s" % (i, link['href'])
    except Exception:
      pass
      
if __name__ == '__main__':
  main(sys.argv[1])