Fetch a url and translate it to markdown in one command. Formally moved to: https://github.com/jefftriplett/url2markdown-cli

url2markdown-cli.py

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Thanks to @kennethreitz for his url2markdown project which this compliments:
    (https://github.com/kennethreitz/url2markdown)

To install library dependencies:
    pip install click requests requests-cache

To use:
    python url2markdown-cli.py --with-cache https://www.djangoproject.com/

To use your own custom url2markdown server instance:
    export URL2MARKDOWN_URL='http://url2markdown.herokuapp.com/?url={url}'

"""
import click
import os
import requests
import requests_cache


URL2MARKDOWN_URL = os.environ.get('URL2MARKDOWN_URL',
                                  'http://url2markdown.herokuapp.com/?url={url}')


def url2markdown(url):
    req = requests.get(URL2MARKDOWN_URL.format(url=url))
    return req.text


@click.command()
@click.argument('url')
@click.option('--with-cache', is_flag=True)
def main(url, with_cache):
    if with_cache:
        requests_cache.install_cache()

    click.echo(url2markdown(url))


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()