Show HN: CLI tool to convert Markdown to rich HTML clipboard content

[letientai299]

At work I need to use Teams. It supports a few Markdown features, but the editing experience for long message isn't smooth. So, I often write in nvim, preview it in the browser and then copy paste to Teams. This tool help me get rid of the review and copy step.

Build with Rust + Claude Code. Tested on Windows and Mac, should works on Ubuntu as well.

Caveats: it's still up to the pasted app to handle the HTML clipboard content.

[roxolotl]

I’d highly recommend pandoc[0] if you need markdown conversion. Basically converts from everything and any markdown style to everything else. And then for clipboard just use `| pbcopy` on a Mac or `| xsel -ib`. Full command on a Mac would just be `pandoc README.md -t html | pbcopy`. If you want a docx you can get that too.

0: https://pandoc.org/

[cspeterson]

Bonus, xclip can be directed provide the rich text directly to the clipboard (op this might offer you a solution that is usable as text by your recipients):

`cat something.md | pandoc -f gfm -t html | xclip -selection clipboard -t text/html`

other output type targets also available, check xclip docs

my small experience with Wayland suggested this sort of thing might be more difficult there, but dunno

[letientai299]

I need the rendered content, not the plain text HTML. As mentioned in the README, I used pandoc in a previous version of the tool, but its output isn’t good looking for my use case.

[naikrovek]

> I need the rendered content

what do you mean, here? you rasterize the markdown into an image?

[edit] yes he rasterizes the markdown into an image

[letientai299]

Please read the README. The tool turns Markdown into NSPasteboard on Mac, or CF_HTML on Windows, so that when you press Cmd/Ctrl-P onto supported applications (Teams, Word, Google Docs), you get something similar to how Github would display the Markdown in the browser.

[dhruv3006]

Interesting - I think this can go with Voiden.

We are a offline API client using Markdown.

Take a look here maybe : https://github.com/VoidenHQ/voiden/

[deafpolygon]

On macOS I use Shortcuts. It works great for me.