Convert HTML to Markdown and some ideas.

[kaffeeringe]

Thank you for your great script!

It would be cool if the script converted the HTML from the RSS-feed into markdown so that the articles keep their form. Diaspora escapes HTML. So my current results don't look too nice...

Maybe it would also be cool if the output was configurable - A headline a link and some tags would suffice for my use.

AFAIK Wordpress feeds also contain tags - you could also post them on diaspora…

[fourier]

Thanks for ideas. I have tags support in mind, just need to implement them. But about the conversion from HTML to Markdown I doubt it could be reliable, since HTML itself is not really well-defined. However I could take a look at it.

[kaffeeringe]

Any result of a converter will be better than having all the escaped HTML in posts. ;-)

Maybe you could test this one here: https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text (By the late great Aaron Swartz)

[kaffeeringe]

And there is an active fork of it: https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text

[xuv]

👍 I like the idea of having html2text. Or maybe another solution would be to just be able to decativate posting the content of the post. Just posting a link + title could be sufficient.

[xuv]

Sorry for the spam here, but pypandoc seems to do conversion from html to markdown.

[fourier]

hi,
I'm not a Diaspora user anymore. I could revisit it later however. Does anyone uses this bot ? I haven't heard anything since diasporaforum.org died...

[xuv]

@fourier well, I don't know if anyone else is running the bot. But I have an instance running it now. Planning to add more Rss feed to it :)