url2markdown

This is a very simple web service that will take a given URL, and return a Markdown representation of that page.

Powered by Readability, Requests, html2text, and Flask.

Usage

$ curl http://url2markdown.herokuapp.com/url=http://kennethreitz.

My name is Kenneth Reitz.

I am a wandering street photographer, musician, and moral fallibilist.

I'm the product owner of Python at Heroku and a member of the Python Software
Foundation. I believe that simplicity is always better than functionality.
...

Enjoy!

Configuration

This application requires a Readability Parser Token.

$ export READABILITY_TOKEN=xxxxxx

You can use autoenv to do this easily.

License

Unfortunately, this code is released under GPLv3.