Html2md

html2md — HTML → Markdown (deck-aware, base64-safe)

A stdlib-only converter (html2md.py) tuned for two cases generic converters choke on:

1. Slide decks — a .slide-per-page HTML presentation. A normal converter flattens it into one wall of text; this one keeps the slide structure and emits ## Slide NN — Title headers.
2. Huge embedded HTML — decks saved as single .html with every image and video inlined as base64 (often 5–50 MB). markitdown and friends spend minutes decoding megabytes of base64 into useless inline blobs; this strips the data URIs first, then parses.

When to Use

• User mentions: html2md, /html2md, "html to md", "html→md", "把 deck 转成 markdown", "deck 转 md"
• You have a slide-style HTML deck (each slide is a <div class="slide"> / <section class="slide">) and want structured per-slide Markdown
• You have a bloated HTML file (multi-MB) that is mostly base64 — markitdown hangs or produces garbage
• You want to extract the text content of a deck so an LLM can critique / revise it

When NOT to Use (use a different skill instead)

How to Use

# Convert, write to a sibling .md file
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python ~/.claude/skills/html2md/html2md.py "deck.html" "deck.md"

# Convert, print to stdout
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python ~/.claude/skills/html2md/html2md.py "deck.html"

# Extract the base64 images/videos to disk and rewrite refs (instead of [IMAGE] placeholders)
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python ~/.claude/skills/html2md/html2md.py "deck.html" "deck.md" --extract-assets

# Drop [IMAGE]/[VIDEO] placeholders entirely (pure text)
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python ~/.claude/skills/html2md/html2md.py "deck.html" "deck.md" --no-assets

# Flat document — don't try to split slides
PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 python ~/.claude/skills/html2md/html2md.py "page.html" "page.md" --no-slides

Always set PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8 on Windows — Chinese/CJK decks mojibake without it.

Arguments

What It Detects

• Slide structure: any <div class="…slide…"> / <section class="…slide…">. Reads .slide-num, .slide-title, .slide-title-en to build the ## Slide NN — Title / _EN subtitle_ header. Falls back to <!-- === NN LABEL === --> HTML comments if classes are absent.
• Semantic divs common in decks: .stat-num + .stat-label, .phase-year/.phase-name/.phase-tag, .label/.source-link/.source-note, .maic-ms-* timeline milestones, .action-* 5W1H cards. These become readable inline Markdown (**13%** — global ATP share) instead of being lost.
• Source links: <a class="source-link" href="…">Source: MIDA</a> → [→ Source: MIDA](url).
• Tables: <table> → pipe tables.
• Document <title>: becomes the top-level # Title.

Dependencies

None. Pure Python 3 stdlib (html.parser, re, base64, hashlib). Works on any machine with Python ≥ 3.8.

Notes / Gotchas

• The slide-splitter caps each slide's inner HTML at 200 KB to defeat greedy regex across nested <div>s. If a slide is genuinely larger than that, raise the limit in split_slides().
• --extract-assets is the way to recover the inlined videos/images from a bloated deck: it writes each blob to <input-stem>_assets/<kind>_<hash>.<ext> and emits ![image](assets/...). Hashes dedupe identical assets.
• For a dark/light themed BFLab deck with .presentation { width:1280px; height:720px } and .slide { position:absolute }, the splitter works as-is.
• This skill does not render HTML or produce PDF — for that use /html2pdf (Chrome headless --print-to-pdf, one PDF page per slide).

Workflow: critique-then-revise a deck

A common use of this skill is to get the text of a deck out so it can be reviewed or rewritten:

1. html2md deck_embedded.html deck.md — extract clean per-slide Markdown.
2. Read deck.md + the critique notes (e.g. eunice_suggestion.md).
3. Author a revised deck HTML (a new file — don't edit the original).
4. /html2pdf the revised HTML to PDF.