HTML Commonmark Projects

to-markdown

5 7,870 3.2 HTML

🛏 An HTML to Markdown converter written in JavaScript

Project mention: Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-14

https://mixmark-io.github.io/turndown/
With some configuration you can get most of the way there.

djot

43 1,576 5.8 HTML

A light markup language

Project mention: LaTeX and Neovim for technical note-taking | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-21

I know this doesn't solve your problem directly, but I recommend people to try out Djot[0], a markup language from the author of CommonMark.
Djot has a single well-defined spec, and most of the basic formatting has the same syntax as (a) Markdown, so switching is pretty painless. It has as a main goal to be legible and visually aesthetic as-is, just like Markdown.
What Djot adds is its _predictability_. Nested formatting, precedence order, line breaks behavior, nested blocks, mixed inline and block formatting, custom attributes are all laid out precisely in the spec in a thought-out manner. Till this day I still can't remember how to put line break within a list item in Markdown (and I'm sure there're more than one way).
[0]: https://djot.net/

WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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