breakdance-request

Get a webpage from a URL and convert it to markdown.

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install --save breakdance-request

Usage

Add breakdance-request to your node.js application with the following line of JavaScript:

var request = require('breakdance-request');

API

request

The main export is a function that takes a url and options, and returns a promise. See breakdance for documentation and all available options.

Params

url {String}: The url of the HTML file to convert to markdown using breakdance
options {Object}: Options to pass to breakdance
returns {Promise}

Example

request('http://breakdance.io/plugins.html')
  .then(function(res) {
    console.log(res.markdown);
  });

.reduce

Convert multiple HTML files to markdown by passing a base url and an array of paths.

Params

url {String}: The base url to use.
paths {String}: One or more paths to concatenate to the base url.
options {Object}: Options to pass to breakdance
returns {Promise}

Example

request.reduce('http://breakdance.io/', ['docs.html', 'plugins.html'])
  .then(function(urls) {
    urls.forEach((res) => console.log(res.md));
  });

CLI

Installing the CLI

$ npm install  --global breakdance-request

This adds the bdr command to your system path, allowing you to run breakdance-request CLI from any directory:

$ bdr
# or use the "breakdance-request" alias in case of conflicts 
$ breakdance-request

CLI examples

Get http://breakdance.io/plugins.html and convert it to markdown with breakdance, then write it to plugins.md.

$ bdr http://breakdance.io/plugins.html
# or using flags 
$ bdr -s http://breakdance.io/plugins.html -d foo.md
# "pick" just the ".main-content" section from the page 
$ bdr -s http://breakdance.io/plugins.html -d foo.md -p ".main-content"

CLI options

Usage: $ bdr [options] <src> <dest>

   src:  The URL of the source file to convert to markdown
  dest:  Name of the markdown destination file to create.
         By default the HTML filename is used with a .md
         extension.

Options:

  -h, --help     Show this help menu in the terminal
  -s, --src      Show this help menu in the terminal
  -c, --condense Collapse more than two newlines to only
                 two newlines. Enabled by default
  -d, --dest     The destination filepath to use.
  -o, --omit     One or more tags to omit entirely from
                 the HTML before converting to markdown.
  -p, --pick     One or more tags to pick entirely from the
                 HTML before converting to markdown.
  --comments     Include HTML code comments in the generated
                 markdown string. Disabled by default

About

Related projects

You might also be interested in these projects:

breakdance-cli: CLI for breakdance, the HTML to markdown converter for node.js. | homepage
breakdance-reflinks: Breakdance plugin that aggregates the urls from hrefs and src attributes at the bottom of… more | homepage
breakdance: Breakdance is a node.js library for converting HTML to markdown. Highly pluggable, flexible and easy… more | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Please read the contributing guide for advice on opening issues, pull requests, and coding standards.

Building docs

(This project's readme.md is generated by verb, please don't edit the readme directly. Any changes to the readme must be made in the .verb.md readme template.)

To generate the readme, run the following command:

$ npm install -g verbose/verb#dev verb-generate-readme && verb

Running tests

Running and reviewing unit tests is a great way to get familiarized with a library and its API. You can install dependencies and run tests with the following command:

$ npm install && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

License

This file was generated by verb-generate-readme, v0.6.0, on August 13, 2017.