markdown-it-py vs html2text

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markdown-it-py		html2text
	Project
2	Mentions	-
629	Stars	1,664
2.2%	Growth	-
6.1	Activity	6.1
about 5 hours ago	Latest Commit	15 days ago
Python	Language	Python
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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markdown-it-py

Posts with mentions or reviews of markdown-it-py. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-12.

Converting markdown to pdf in Python
3 projects | dev.to | 12 Oct 2023

This method is based on the use of the libraries markdown-it-py (conversion from markdown to html) and [PyMuPDF] https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF) (conversion from html to pdf). A small Python class links them together.
Parsing a Markdown, search it and render back to Markdown
2 projects | /r/learnpython | 20 Jun 2022

https://github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py is the recommended replacement which seems to have similar Tree features:

html2text

Posts with mentions or reviews of html2text. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning html2text yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing markdown-it-py and html2text you can also consider the following projects:

PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

textract - extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.

markdown-pdf - Markdown to pdf renderer

trafilatura - Python & command-line tool to gather text on the Web: web crawling/scraping, extraction of text, metadata, comments

Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support.

newspaper - newspaper3k is a news, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:

python-readability - fast python port of arc90's readability tool, updated to match latest readability.js!

python-goose - Html Content / Article Extractor, web scrapping lib in Python

sumy - Module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.

inscriptis - A python based HTML to text conversion library, command line client and Web service.

TWINT - An advanced Twitter scraping & OSINT tool written in Python that doesn't use Twitter's API, allowing you to scrape a user's followers, following, Tweets and more while evading most API limitations.

Haul - An Extensible Image Crawler