This is a very simple web service that will take a given URL, and return a Markdown representation of that page.
Powered by Readability, Requests, html2text, markdown, and Flask.
$ curl http://mdpls.co/?url=http://kennethreitz.org
# Hi, there.
My name is Kenneth Reitz.
...
Or, if you understand code:
$ mkvirtualenv url2markdown
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ READABILITY_TOKEN="XXX" python service.py
Enjoy!
This application requires a Readability Parser Token.
$ export READABILITY_TOKEN=xxxxxx
You can use autoenv to do this easily.
Unfortunately, this code is released under GPLv3.