Convert Jupyter notebook -> Markdown file for publishing to Jekyll blog

jupyter_to_jekyll.py

import os
import re
import subprocess
import argparse
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup


parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument('ipynb_file_name', type=str)
args = parser.parse_args()

markdown_file_name: str = args.ipynb_file_name.replace('.ipynb', '.md')
print(f"Converting {args.ipynb_file_name} => {markdown_file_name}")
subprocess.run(["jupyter", "nbconvert", "--to", "markdown", args.ipynb_file_name])

# Clean up markdown
with open(markdown_file_name, 'r') as fd:
    md = fd.read()
md_clean = md

# HTML cleanup
#   Remove <style> tags
md_clean = re.sub(r'\<style scoped\>(.|\n)*\<\/style\>','', md_clean, flags=re.IGNORECASE)
#   Remove <axessubplot> tags
md_clean = re.sub(r'\<\/?axessubplot:.*\n','', md_clean, flags=re.IGNORECASE)

with open(markdown_file_name, 'w') as fd:
    fd.write(md_clean)