html2markdown を Homebrew でインストール

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プロジェクトの歴史

The repository was created in 2018 and presents the project as a Go library that converts HTML to Markdown with parser-based handling for unknown input. The README emphasizes extensibility through rules and plugins, with support for GitHub-flavored Markdown features such as tables, strikethrough, and task-list items.

The release stream shows steady versioned packaging, with the 1.x series active through 2024 and the 2.x series appearing afterward. Release assets include platform archives and package artifacts, which explains why a library-oriented Go project also fits Homebrew as a CLI formula.

採用の歴史

The project is visible in Go documentation, Homebrew, and Debian's Go library packaging. That adoption pattern is common for Go conversion libraries: developers embed the library in migration tools, while package managers expose a small command-line converter for one-off document cleanup.

使われ方

Typical use cases are converting copied web fragments, archived pages, CMS exports, or generated HTML into Markdown for documentation systems. The README's rule and plugin APIs make it useful when a team needs repeatable conversion rules instead of a generic all-purpose document converter.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

For package nerds, html2markdown is interesting because it occupies the narrow lane between heavyweight converters such as Pandoc and tiny ad hoc scripts. It packages a parser-backed Go library as an installable utility, giving shell users a focused HTML-to-Markdown tool with binaries across platforms.

タイムライン

• 2018: The html-to-markdown repository was created on GitHub.
• 2020: The v1.2.0 release continued the early 1.x line.
• 2021: v1.3.0 added nested-list focused work.
• 2023: v1.4.0 added escaping control, followed by v1.5.0 list-start work.
• 2024: v1.6.0 landed before the alpha 2.0 releases.
• 2025: v2.3.0 identified table-plugin work in the release title.
• 2026: v2.5.2 shipped with multiple platform artifacts.

Related projects

• The README names Turndown for JavaScript and lunny/html2md as related projects. In practice, users also compare this kind of tool with Pandoc, html2text, and bespoke site-migration scripts.

ソース

• GitHub repository and release metadata document the repository creation date and versioned release history.
• Homebrew and Debian package pages support package-manager adoption.
• The GitHub README documents parser-based conversion, rules, plugins, security caveats, and related projects.