HTML Table to markdown table converter

This program takes an html file as input, validates it and then searches for all tables within it to convert them to a single md file as output containing a list of tables

Required Packages:

• beautifulsoup4 - 4.8.1
• lxml - 4.4.2

Tested on python version - 3.7.5

How to use

Help and available options can be listed by the following cmd

 python3 html_to_markdown.py -h  

usage: html_to_markdown.py [-h] -i INPUT_HTML_FILE [-o OUTPUT_MD_FILE]
                           [-a {1,2,3}]

Program to find and convert HTML Tables into markdown. HTML file is read from
inputs/ folder and output md file is written in outputs/ folder

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -i INPUT_HTML_FILE, --input_html_file INPUT_HTML_FILE
                        Input html file path
  -o OUTPUT_MD_FILE, --output_md_file OUTPUT_MD_FILE
                        Enter name of output md file to be stored in outputs/
                        folder
  -a {1,2,3}, --alignment {1,2,3}
                        Choose alignment for text in markdown tables 1: left,
                        2: right, 3: center

In the terminal enter following cmd to run the program:

python3 html_to_markdown.py -i inputs/input3.html -o output3.md -a 1  

Example output stored in `outputs/` folder as a md file:

Found 1 table

Table 1:

Firstname	Lastname
Jill	Smith
Eve	Jackson

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Run Tests

From project root dir:

python3 tests.py  

Contact

Feel free to contact me at my email [email protected]