{"categories":[{"label":"Markup","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/text-processing-markup"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Converts markdown text to plain text, removing all formatting, links, and structural markup while preserving readable content. Provides both a command-line tool and a Python library interface.","skillfed_tags":["markdown-conversion","text-extraction","cli-tool"],"use_cases":["Extract plain text from markdown documentation for indexing or full-text search.","Convert markdown README files to plain text for display in systems that don't support markdown rendering.","Prepare markdown content for text analysis, NLP, or content moderation pipelines.","Batch convert markdown files to plain text format for archival or migration purposes.","Strip formatting from markdown before feeding text to downstream tools that expect unformatted input."],"what_it_does":"strip_markdown is a lightweight converter that takes markdown source and produces plain text output, stripping away all formatting directives, links, emphasis markers, and structural elements. It works as both a standalone command-line tool (via `python -m strip_markdown`) and as an importable Python library, making it useful for extracting readable text from markdown documents.\n\nThe package depends on markdown and beautifulsoup4 to parse and clean the input. It is marked as Production/Stable in its classifiers, but has been abandoned since May 2023 with no subsequent releases or commits. The last version (1.3) was released on 2022-04-23, meaning the codebase has not been maintained for over a year.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need a simple, dependency-light markdown-to-text converter and can tolerate an unmaintained package. The low install friction and permissive license make it a reasonable choice for one-off conversions or non-critical workflows. No if you require active maintenance, security updates, or compatibility guarantees with future Python or dependency versions\u2014consider an actively maintained alternative for production systems."},"id":"strip-markdown","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/strip-markdown","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/strip-markdown.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/strip-markdown/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2022-04-23","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"strip-markdown","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Converts markdown to plain text"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":252498,"position":8543,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"1.3"}