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Markdown to Plaintext in Python
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from bs4 import BeautifulSoup | |
from markdown import markdown | |
def markdown_to_text(markdown_string): | |
""" Converts a markdown string to plaintext """ | |
# md -> html -> text since BeautifulSoup can extract text cleanly | |
html = markdown(markdown_string) | |
# remove code snippets | |
html = re.sub(r'<pre>(.*?)</pre>', ' ', html) | |
html = re.sub(r'<code>(.*?)</code >', ' ', html) | |
# extract text | |
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser") | |
text = ''.join(soup.findAll(text=True)) | |
return text |
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