Ever wanted to easily preview what you markdown would look like exactly on Github? Ever wanted to do that from inside of a Terminal? Well this Gem is for you. Dead simple. Never get caught writing ugly markdown again.

![Octodown] (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ianks/octodown/master/assets/octodown.gif)

Features:

  • Uses the same markdown parsers and CSS as Github for true duplication.
    • Yes emojis are included.
  • Fast. octodown uses native parsers to ensure performance.
  • Multiple CSS styles. Choose from either.
    • $ octodown --style atom README.md
    • The github.com markdown (default)
    • The Atom text editor markdown
  • Properly parses STDIN.
    • $ cat README.md | octodown

Installation

  1. Install icu4c and cmake: * Mac: $ brew install icu4c cmake * Apt: $ sudo apt-get install -y libicu-dev cmake
  2. If you have a non-system Ruby (highly recommended): * $ gem install octodown
  3. Else: * $ sudo gem install octodown

Usage

  1. Basic: * $ octodown README.md
  2. Markdown preview styling: * $ octodown --style atom README.md
  3. *nix lovers: * $ echo '# Hello world!' | octodown --raw > index.html

Notes

  1. With no arguments given, octodown will read STDIN until EOF is reached. * In order to work with this mode, type what you want into the input, then press Ctrl-D when finished.
  2. octodown attempts to use default OS support for opening HTML files from terminal. In Mac, this would be the open command; for Linux it is either xdg-open or x-www-browser. If these are not set, octodown will not automatically open the file in the browser. If octodown doesn’t have the commands neccesary to open files in a browser, please consider opening a pull request to add support!

Contributing

  1. Fork it ( https://github.com/[my-github-username]/octodown/fork )
  2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  5. Create a new Pull Request