Show HN: CLI tool to convert Markdown to rich HTML clipboard content

Show HN: CLI tool to convert Markdown to rich HTML clipboard content(github.com)

12 points by letientai299 102 days ago | 7 comments

At work I need to use Teams. It supports a few Markdown features, but the editing experience for long message isn't smooth. So, I often write in nvim, preview it in the browser and then copy paste to Teams. This tool help me get rid of the review and copy step.

Build with Rust + Claude Code. Tested on Windows and Mac, should works on Ubuntu as well.

Caveats: it's still up to the pasted app to handle the HTML clipboard content.

roxolotl 102 days ago |

I’d highly recommend pandoc[0] if you need markdown conversion. Basically converts from everything and any markdown style to everything else. And then for clipboard just use `| pbcopy` on a Mac or `| xsel -ib`. Full command on a Mac would just be `pandoc README.md -t html | pbcopy`. If you want a docx you can get that too.

0: https://pandoc.org/

cspeterson 101 days ago | |

Bonus, xclip can be directed provide the rich text directly to the clipboard (op this might offer you a solution that is usable as text by your recipients):

`cat something.md | pandoc -f gfm -t html | xclip -selection clipboard -t text/html`

other output type targets also available, check xclip docs

my small experience with Wayland suggested this sort of thing might be more difficult there, but dunno

letientai299 102 days ago | |

I need the rendered content, not the plain text HTML. As mentioned in the README, I used pandoc in a previous version of the tool, but its output isn’t good looking for my use case.

naikrovek 102 days ago | | |

> I need the rendered content

what do you mean, here? you rasterize the markdown into an image?

[edit] yes he rasterizes the markdown into an image

dhruv3006 102 days ago |

Interesting - I think this can go with Voiden.

We are a offline API client using Markdown.

Take a look here maybe : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden/

deafpolygon 101 days ago |

On macOS I use Shortcuts. It works great for me.