Code to convert github flavored markdown to RST

gfm2html

#!/usr/bin/env python

import requests
import sys
import json
import re


if len(sys.argv) == 2:
    markdown_file = sys.argv[1]
else:
    markdown_file = 'README.md'

with open(markdown_file) as f:
    markdown = f.read()

r = requests.post('https://api.github.com/markdown',
                  data=json.dumps({'text': markdown, 'mode': 'markdown'}))

html = re.sub(r'(<h\d>)\n<a[^>]+><span[^>]+></span></a>([^<]+)(</h\d>)',
              r'\1\2\3', r.text)

print html.encode('utf-8', 'replace')

md2rst

#!/bin/bash

MD='README.md'
if [ ! -z $1 ]; then
	MD=$1
fi

pandoc --from=html --to=rst --output=README.rst <(gfm2html $MD)