I wanted to share a handy tool that I realized I use daily but rarely talk about. I call it Read2Text, but it’s really just a Frankenstein script which combines Python Readability (license) with html2text (license). The combination allows you to grab web pages, process them with a port of Arc90’s Readability and convert the HTML to Markdown, ready for pasting or piping to a text file.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://brettterpstra.com/2012/01/04/scripting-readability-markdownify-for-clipping-web-pages