I’ve come up with a couple of native solutions for this challenge that work within DEVONthink which I’ve detailed here:
I put this together for a personal use case as I have 1000’s of Webloc files imported from my Pinboard account that I needed to convert to readable Markdown formatted files via the Readability service.
If you’ve used the DEVONthink Web Clipper from an external browser you’ll be aware of how it functions and the flexibility it provides. This script makes the clipper available from within DEVONthink itself.
Best of all, you can automate the clipper via Keyboard Maestro to step through a folder o…
I hacked this together based of one of Christian Grunenberg’s conversion Applescripts available through the ‘Support Assistant’ but altered it to make use of the ‘create Makrdown from’ command in the DEVONthink Applescript suite.
I prefer the results achieved via the DEVONthink Web Clipper as detailed here - viewtopic.php?f=20&t=20320 - but if you’re happy with capturing Mardown conversions before they’ve gone through the Readability API it works very well and includes error checking. The downs…
The Python script makes too many syntax errors in the Markdown for my liking and the Instapper API (core to the script) is nowhere near as good as the Readability API (which the DEVONthink Web Clipper uses).