strip-markdown

remark plugin remove markdown formatting. This essentially removes everything but paragraphs and text nodes.

This is one of the first remark plugins, before prefixing with remark- got cool.

Note!

This plugin is ready for the new parser in remark (remarkjs/remark#536). No change is needed: it works exactly the same now as it did before!

Install

This package is ESM only: Node 12+ is needed to use it and it must be imported instead of required.

npm:

npm install strip-markdown

Use

import {remark} from 'remark'
import strip from 'strip-markdown'

remark()
  .use(strip)
  .process('Some *emphasis*, **importance**, and `code`.')
  .then((file) => {
    console.log(String(file))
  })

Yields:

Some emphasis, importance, and code.

API

This package exports no identifiers. The default export is stripMarkdown.

`unified().use(stripMarkdown[, options])`

Plugin to remove markdown formatting.

Removes html (note), code, horizontalRule, table, yaml, toml, and their content
Render everything else as simple paragraphs without formatting
Uses alt text for images

Security

Use of strip-markdown does not involve rehype (hast) or user content so there are no openings for cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Contribute

See contributing.md in remarkjs/.github for ways to get started. See support.md for ways to get help.

This project has a code of conduct. By interacting with this repository, organization, or community you agree to abide by its terms.

unified

Project: remarkjs/strip-markdown

Package: strip-markdown@5.0.0