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Remove Markdown formatting from text

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  • remove-markdown

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What is it?

remove-markdown is a node.js module that will remove (strip) Markdown formatting from a text. "Markdown formatting" means pretty much anything that doesn’t look like regular text, like square brackets, asterisks etc.

When do I need it?

The typical use case is to display an excerpt of a Markdown text, without the actual Markdown (or rendered HTML, for that matter), for example in a list of posts.

Installation

npm install remove-markdown

Usage

const removeMd = require('remove-markdown');
const markdown = '# This is a heading\n\nThis is a paragraph with [a link](http://www.disney.com/) in it.';
const plainText = removeMd(markdown); // plainText is now 'This is a heading\n\nThis is a paragraph with a link in it.'

You can also supply an options object to the function. Currently, the following options are supported:

var plainText = removeMd(markdown, {
  stripListLeaders: true , // strip list leaders (default: true)
  listUnicodeChar: '',     // char to insert instead of stripped list leaders (default: '')
  gfm: true                // support GitHub-Flavored Markdown (default: true)
});

Setting stripListLeaders to false will retain any list characters (*, -, +, (digit).).

TODO

PRs are very much welcome.

  • Allow the RegEx expressions to be customized per rule
  • Make the rules more robust, support more edge cases
  • Add more (comprehensive) tests

Credits

The code is based on Markdown Service Tools - Strip Markdown by Brett Terpstra.

Author

Stian Grytøyr