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This is a workflow for Editorial, a Markdown and plain text editor for iOS. To download it, you need to view this page on a device that has the app installed.

Description: Downloads the HTML of the web page that is currently open in the in-app browser, converts it to Markdown, and copies the result to the clipboard.

Shared by: @olemoritz

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ClareMacrae — 21 Nov 2014
This works really well. Thank you very much.
Tutorial Doctor — 22 Nov 2014
A much shorter technique than the one used by the workflow I posted earlier (by Aaron Swartz)
http://editorial-app.appspot.com/workflow/5853676023316480/fM1Ff_dYwQg

But this workflow leaves out a lot of information. It also crashed. How does this code work so that I could edit it? Where does the conversion happen?
Tutorial Doctor — 22 Nov 2014
Scratch that, the page I used was bad. It works about as good. Nice one Ole.
Tutorial Doctor — 27 Nov 2014
Modified it slightly to automatically create a new document from the Webpage with browser title.
http://www.editorial-workflows.com/workflow/5282583080337408/GC77290lJ_E

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Workflow Preview
Generate Text ?
Text
Browser URL
If… ?
Run the block if
Input
  • is Equal to
  • is Not Equal to
  • Contains
  • Doesn't Contain
  • Matches Regular Expression
Stop ?
Stop
  • This Workflow
  • Repeat Block
Show HUD Alert
ON
Message
No Web Page in Browser
…End If
Run Python Script ?
Source Code
#coding: utf-8
import workflow
import requests
from html2text import html2text

action_in = workflow.get_input()
r = requests.get(action_in)
html = r.text
action_out = html2text(html)

workflow.set_output(action_out)
Set Clipboard ?
Show HUD ?
HUD Text
Markdown Copied
Duration
  • 1 Second
  • 2 Seconds
  • 3 Seconds
Icon
  • "Success"
  • "Error"