HTML2MD

A Laravel Zero CLI tool to extract a column with HTML content from the database to markdown file.

Setup

Clone the repository:

    git clone https://github.com/marcim/html2md.git

Navigate to root folder and install the PHP dependencies:

    cd html2md && composer install

Create .env file copying .env.example. Open the new .env file and replace dumb values with your's database configuration. See more at Laravel documentation

    cp .env.example .env
    vim .env

Use

Basic usage

The most simple usage extracts the specified HTML content field to a markdown file format. Just run the command php html2md extract [relation] [column] at project root directory, replacing relation to your's database table name, and column to the column name with HTML content. See below:

    php html2md extract posts body

The outputed files are saved at md folder.

YAML Header

Most of the time it is extremely convenient to have a markdown file with a YAML header. If the wished header content comes from the same relation as the html content field, this tool could provide this for you.

To achieve this add --header=[fields,...] option in command call:

    php html2md extract posts body --header=field1,field2

Notice the field1 and field2 are the wished database columns to fill YAML header. You must separate each column name with comma.

TODO:

• Tests
• Customize output file names
• Allow format dates and timezone
• Get data from a relationship