Make Markdown from HTML web page.

Time to time I need to save some excerpts or full text articles from a web pages into my personal wiki (which is a directory of plain markdown files basically). So to streamline this process this utility was born. It uses Mozilla's Radability.js to strip non-essential parts of a web page and leave just a making sense content. It runs from Rust with help of QuickJS. Since CommonMark Spec is huge, Rust binary already uses JS VM and there is Turndown that has proven itself for many years in converting HTML to Markdown, I decided to save some time and just use it. This tool, by default, downloads a page, makes it readable, converts HTML to Markdown and embed images as data URIs at the very end of the output file.

# Download, save, and cat with bat
$ mkdm "https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-am-disappointed-by-dynamic-typing/" | tee dyntype.md | bat -lmd

# Select in Firefox part that you'd like to save, right click and `View Selection Source`, capy and...
$ pbpaste | mkmd > ~/wiki/excerpt.md

# Do not embed images and do not use Readability.js
$ xsel -b | mkmd --no-img --full --output full-article.md

Clone, cd and cargo build.

$ git clone --recurse https://github.com/makovich/mkmd
$ cd mkmd
$ npm install
$ git apply --directory=src/readability --apply ./src/0001-data-nodeValue-API-to-comply-with-domino.patch
$ npm run test
$ npm bundle
$ cargo run

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