Code to convert github flavored markdown to RST

gfm2html

#!/usr/bin/env python
from __future__ import print_function
import pandoc
import requests
import sys
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',
                  json={'text': markdown, 'mode': 'markdown'})

html = re.sub(r'(<h\d>)\n<a[^>]+><span[^>]+></span></a>([^<]+)(</h\d>)',
              r'\1\2\3', r.text).encode('utf-8', 'replace')

print(pypandoc.convert_text(html, 'rst', format='md'))