html2jira

html2jira is a Python script that converts a page of HTML into the wiki format used by Atlassian's Jira and Confluance applications.

Usage: html2jira.py [(filename|url) [encoding]]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --ignore-links        don't include any formatting for links
  --ignore-images       don't include any formatting for images
  -g, --google-doc      convert an html-exported Google Document
  -d, --dash-unordered-list
                        use a dash rather than a star for unordered list items
  -b BODY_WIDTH, --body-width=BODY_WIDTH
                        number of characters per output line, 0 for no wrap
  -i LIST_INDENT, --google-list-indent=LIST_INDENT
                        number of pixels Google indents nested lists
  -s, --hide-strikethrough
                        hide strike-through text. only relevent when -g is
                        specified as well

Or you can use it from within Python:

import html2jira
print html2jira.html2jira("<p>Hello, world.</p>")

Or with some configuration options:

import html2jira
h = html2jira.HTML2Jira()
h.ignore_links = True
print h.handle("<p>Hello, <a href='http://earth.google.com/'>world</a>!")

Originally written by Aaron Swartz. This code is distributed under the GPLv3.

How to install

clone this repository, open your terminal, navigate to the root directory and run

python setup.py install

You may need admin privileges

How to run unit tests

python test/test_html2text.py -v