Convert HTML code to clean Markdown • Extract content from web pages for blogs and documentation
System Definition BlockMarkdown has become the universal standard for technical documentation, GitHub Readmes, and static site generators (like Next.js and Hugo). However, migrating legacy documentation or scraping web content usually leaves developers dealing with bloated, unreadable HTML. A robust HTML-to-Markdown converter allows engineers to instantly sanitize rich text, stripping away heavy HTML markup while preserving the core semantic structure necessary for documentation platforms.
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This conversion utility leverages a recursive node-walking algorithm to translate complex HTML DOM trees into clean Markdown syntax. It strips out inline CSS styles, normalizes heading tags (H1-H6) into hash prefixes, converts `<ul>`/`<ol>` lists into dashed arrays, and replaces anchor tags `<a>` with standard `[text](url)` bracket formatting, entirely within the client runtime.
const TurndownService = require('turndown');
const turndownService = new TurndownService({ headingStyle: 'atx' });
const rawHtml = '<h1>Welcome</h1><p>Migrating to <strong>Markdown</strong>.</p>';
const markdown = turndownService.turndown(rawHtml);
console.log(markdown);
// Output:
// # Welcome
// Migrating to **Markdown**.The parser attempts to map `<table>`, `<tr>`, and `<td>` tags into standard GitHub-Flavored Markdown (GFM) pipe-delimited tables. Highly complex tables with merged cells (`colspan` or `rowspan`) may gracefully degrade to standard HTML blocks, as Markdown does not natively support merged cells.
For security and formatting purity, inline JavaScript `<script>` tags are aggressively purged. `<iframe>` embeds (like YouTube videos) are generally kept as raw HTML blocks since standard Markdown does not have an equivalent syntax for video embedding.
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