convert markdown to json object

Question

I have a markdown file imported in a node module like this through a webpack loader

import mardownFile from \'./markdownfile.md\'

this file is a

Answer 1

For my first search on this I've found the jsonmark package that is kinda what you have requested but it creates an object with order and contents which is not necessary and is hard to modify its code as it is based on regexp.

I agree with galkin's response that using a markdown parser's tokens should get you what you want.

Here is my example of how to create a json object based on markdown. My goal was to have a json array with elements that have a head and body, head is the h1 and body is all that goes beneath it. In the example I'm using marked as the markdown parser. (I'm Running it on nodejs as reading from file is not quite possible from file otherwise.)

var fs = require('fs');
var marked = require('./marked.min.js');
var finally = [];
var heading = '';
var lexbody = [];

var loadmd = function(file){
  var markdown = fs.readFileSync(file, 'utf8');
  jsonraw = marked.lexer(markdown);
  finally = [];
  heading = '';
  lexbody = [];
  jsonraw.forEach(getThem);
  return finally;
}
var getThem = function(item, index){
  if (item.type == "heading" && item.depth == 1){
    if (heading == ''){
      heading = item.text;
    } else {
      lexbody['links']=jsonraw.links;
      finally.push(
        {
          "heading": heading,
          "body": marked.parser(lexbody)
        }
      );
      heading = item.text;
      lexbody = [];
    }
  } else {
    lexbody.push(item);
  }
  // don't leave out the last element
  if (index == jsonraw.length-1){
    lexbody['links']=jsonraw.links;
    finally.push(
      {
        "heading": heading,
        "body": marked.parser(lexbody)
      }
    );
  }
}

Answer 2

You can not import md file, because import for only on javascript files. You need use some markdown parser or write your own. For example markdown-it:

var MarkdownIt = require('markdown-it');
var md = new MarkdownIt();
var result = md.parse('# markdown-it rulezz!');
console.log(result);

You will get:

[Token {
  type: 'heading_open',
  tag: 'h1',
  attrs: null,
  map: [0, 1],
  nesting: 1,
  level: 0,
  children: null,
  content: '',
  markup: '#',
  info: '',
  meta: null,
  block: true,
  hidden: false
},
  Token {
  type: 'inline',
  tag: '',
  attrs: null,
  map: [0, 1],
  nesting: 0,
  level: 1,
  children: [[Object]],
  content: 'markdown-it rulezz!',
  markup: '',
  info: '',
  meta: null,
  block: true,
  hidden: false
},
  Token {
  type: 'heading_close',
  tag: 'h1',
  attrs: null,
  map: null,
  nesting: -1,
  level: 0,
  children: null,
  content: '',
  markup: '#',
  info: '',
  meta: null,
  block: true,
  hidden: false
}]

Answer 3

Try the markdown-to-json library.

npm install -g markdown-to-json

Given a file called lottery.md I go to the directory in my terminal and type:

m2j lottery.md

This outputs the json on the screen.

If you're using a bash based terminal you can pipe that output into a file like this.

m2j lottery.md >> lottery.json

Which will create a json file called lottery.json in the same folder as your markdown.

For additional help you can use:

m2j -h