README

Library which converts HTML to Markdown for your sanity and convenience.

Requires: PHP 7.2+

Lead Developer: @colinodell

Original Author: @nickcernis

Why convert HTML to Markdown?

"What alchemy is this?" you mutter. "I can see why you'd convert Markdown to HTML," you continue, already labouring the question somewhat, "but why go the other way?"

Typically you would convert HTML to Markdown if:

1. You have an existing HTML document that needs to be edited by people with good taste.
2. You want to store new content in HTML format but edit it as Markdown.
3. You want to convert HTML email to plain text email.
4. You know a guy who's been converting HTML to Markdown for years, and now he can speak Elvish. You'd quite like to be able to speak Elvish.
5. You just really like Markdown.

How to use it

Require the library by issuing this command:

composer require league/html-to-markdown

Add require 'vendor/autoload.php'; to the top of your script.

Next, create a new HtmlConverter instance, passing in your valid HTML code to its convert() function:

use League\HTMLToMarkdown\HtmlConverter;

$converter = new HtmlConverter();

$html = "
Quick, to the Batpoles!";
$markdown = $converter->convert($html);

The $markdown variable now contains the Markdown version of your HTML as a string:

echo $markdown; // ==> ### Quick, to the Batpoles!

The included demo directory contains an HTML->Markdown conversion form to try out.

Conversion options

Caution

By default, this library preserves HTML tags without Markdown equivalents, like ,