Is there any way to convert Wikitext to Markdown in python?

Question

Is there a python library which takes wikitext (as used in mediawiki) input and converts it to markdown?

Can you even do that? I never really used wikitext, but isn't it orders of magnitude more powerful/fine-grained than markdown? — , Feb 12 '11 at 22:06
It doesn't need to be a perfect conversion, as long as it preserves the general structure. — Ed L, Feb 12 '11 at 22:29

score 15 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '12 at 08:50

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Since is something that I need, I packaged both together:

So now it's easier to perform both tasks.

answered Jun 14 '12 at 08:50

wikier

Here's what I see when I try to access that link: https://i.imgur.com/0jY04pX.png – Raleigh L. Oct 01 '22 at 06:08

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 12 '11 at 23:32

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You can go from wikitext to html and then go from html to markdown. Not exactly straight forward, but i know no alternatives.

answered Feb 12 '11 at 23:32

Jochen Ritzel

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Unfortunately, this is for WikiCreole. It doesn't seem to work for MediaWiki markup. I have not yet found a reliable standalone Mediawiki to HTML-or-whatever converter. – mivk May 31 '14 at 13:48
the first hyperlink isn't useful any longer – random-forest-cat Jan 01 '23 at 03:01

score 4 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 04 '12 at 16:22

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Not sure it does what you want, but you might want to check out Pyandoc: a Python wrapper for Pandoc.

answered Dec 04 '12 at 16:22

Sam Dutton

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 13 '14 at 01:34

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You can use pandoc for this. Try online converter.

answered Aug 13 '14 at 01:34

Artem Klevtsov

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 20 '19 at 11:24

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You can use pandoc with following syntax to convert from mediwiki to markdown.

 pandoc -f mediawiki -t markdown wiki.txt

this will output on console but if you want to save it in a file then change as below.

pandoc --from mediawiki --to markdown wiki.txt  -o youwant.md

edited Dec 20 '19 at 11:24

Evan Hu

answered Nov 26 '16 at 05:52

FarIDM

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