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		janerik on Feb 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Markdown.css – make HTML look like plain-text I use pandoc[1] for this. `curl -s example.com \| pandoc -f html -t markdown -` [1]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

fiddlosopher on Feb 13, 2013 [–]

This works too:

    pandoc -t markdown http://example.com

janerik on Feb 13, 2013 | [–]

Nice. Didn't know pandoc can directly read from an URL, even easier.

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