Slackify Markdown

A Python library for converting Markdown to slack specific markdown. This is inspired from existing npm package slackify-markdown

Overview

This library converts regular Markdown to Slack-specific markdown, making it easy to use and display correctly in Slack messages.

Installation

pip install slackify-markdown

Usage

from slackify_markdown import slackify_markdown

markdown = """
# Title

This is **bold text** and this is *italic text*.

## Subtitle
1. **Item 1**
2. *Item 2*

## Another Subtitle
* **Element 1** - *Description 1*
* **Element 2** - *Description 2*

[Link](https://example.com)

"""

slack_output = slackify_markdown(markdown)
"""
*Title*

This is *bold text* and this is _italic text_.

*Subtitle*
1.  *Item 1*
2.  _Item 2_

*Another Subtitle*
•   *Element 1* - _Description 1_
•   *Element 2* - _Description 2_

<https://example.com|Link>
"""

Features

• Converts headers to Slack-compatible bold text
• Preserves bold and italic formatting
• Handles code blocks and inline code
• Converts links to Slack's expected format
• Processes lists (ordered and unordered)
• Handles blockquotes

Example Conversions

Markdown	Slack mrkdwn
# Heading	*Heading*
**Bold**	*Bold*
*Italic*	_Italic_
`code`	`code`
[Link](https://example.com)	<https://example.com|Link>

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgements

Shoutout to jsarafaj, his JS library has inspired the code and tests for this package.