Convert an HTML table (on the clipboard) to Markdown

tab2md.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from tabulate import tabulate
import xerox

raw_html = xerox.paste()
tab_html = BeautifulSoup(raw_html, 'lxml')

rows = []
for row in tab_html.find_all('tr'):
    cols = [x.get_text().strip() for x in row.find_all(['td', 'th'])]
    rows.append(cols)

tab_md = tabulate(rows, headers='firstrow', tablefmt='pipe')

xerox.copy(tab_md)