How to transform HTML to Markdown using Nokogiri?

Question

Is there any way to transform HTML into Markdown text?

• HTML is pretty simple - it's just a div element with several <p> elements inside.
• There may be images - I want to preserve them as well.
• Also, there may be several "inline" images like this one: <img src='images/symbol_minus.gif' width='9' height='3' alt='&minus;' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle;' /> which is just a minus sign - I want to replace them with text.

Nokogiri::XML::Element#text is almost something that I want, but it strips off images.

Answer 1

As @Konrads suggested, there is a duplicate entry here. However, the link which is given in the answer on that entry is broken.

I've googled a bit more and found that some forks survived: https://github.com/tomkrush/reverse-markdown, https://gist.github.com/788039.

If these forks become dead, just google for "reverse markdown". You will definitely find something that is alive and working.