Wikipedia To Markdown

This is a simple script to convert a Wikipedia article to Markdown.

Prerequisites

• Python 3

Installation

git clone
cd wikipedia-markdown-generator
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

python3 wiki-to-md.py <topic_name>

Specifying if you want to download the images is optional. It is set to yes by default, you can set it to no.

python3 wiki-to-md-images.py --image-dl=no <topic_name>

For help:

python3 wiki-to-md.py --help
python3 wiki-to-md--images.py --help

Output

The output is a Markdown file with the same name as the topic name under the newly created directory md_output if using wiki-to-md.py. If you want to download images too, use the wiki-to-md-images.py file and the images will be placed inside md_output/images/.

Note: eventually, wiki-to-md.py and wiki-to-md-images.py will be combined into one script with a flag to download images or not.

Why?

I wanted to convert some Wikipedia articles to Markdown for my personal notes. I couldn't find a simple script to do this, so I wrote one myself.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.