#!/usr/bin/env python # # Sebastian Raschka 2014-2015 # # Python script that inserts a table of contents # into markdown documents and creates the required # internal links. # # For more information about how internal links # in HTML and Markdown documents work, please see # # Creating a table of contents with internal links in # IPython Notebooks and Markdown documents: # http://sebastianraschka.com/Articles/2014_ipython_internal_links.html # # Updates for this script will be available at # https://github.com/rasbt/markdown-toclify # # for more information about the usage: # markdown-toclify.py --help # import argparse import re __version__ = '1.7.1' VALIDS = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_-&' def read_lines(in_file): """Returns a list of lines from a input markdown file.""" with open(in_file, 'r') as inf: in_contents = inf.read().split('\n') return in_contents def remove_lines(lines, remove=('[[back to top]', ' tags.""" if not remove: return lines[:] out = [] for l in lines: if l.startswith(remove): continue out.append(l) return out def dashify_headline(line): """ Takes a header line from a Markdown document and returns a tuple of the '#'-stripped version of the head line, a string version for anchor tags, and the level of the headline as integer. E.g., >>> dashify_headline('### some header lvl3') ('Some header lvl3', 'some-header-lvl3', 3) """ stripped_right = line.rstrip('#') stripped_both = stripped_right.lstrip('#') level = len(stripped_right) - len(stripped_both) stripped_wspace = stripped_both.strip() # character replacements replaced_colon = stripped_wspace.replace('.', '') replaced_slash = replaced_colon.replace('/', '') rem_nonvalids = ''.join([c if c in VALIDS else '-' for c in replaced_slash]) lowered = rem_nonvalids.lower() dashified = re.sub(r'(-)\1+', r'\1', lowered) # remove duplicate dashes dashified = dashified.strip('-') # strip dashes from start and end # exception '&' (double-dash in github) dashified = dashified.replace('-&-', '--') return [stripped_wspace, dashified, level] def tag_and_collect(lines, id_tag=True, back_links=False, exclude_h=None): """ Gets headlines from the markdown document and creates anchor tags. Keyword arguments: lines: a list of sublists where every sublist represents a line from a Markdown document. id_tag: if true, creates inserts a the tags (not req. by GitHub) back_links: if true, adds "back to top" links below each headline exclude_h: header levels to exclude. E.g., [2, 3] excludes level 2 and 3 headings. Returns a tuple of 2 lists: 1st list: A modified version of the input list where anchor tags where inserted above the header lines (if github is False). 2nd list: A list of 3-value sublists, where the first value represents the heading, the second value the string that was inserted assigned to the IDs in the anchor tags, and the third value is an integer that reprents the headline level. E.g., [['some header lvl3', 'some-header-lvl3', 3], ...] """ out_contents = [] headlines = [] for l in lines: saw_headline = False orig_len = len(l) l = l.lstrip() if l.startswith(('# ', '## ', '### ', '#### ', '##### ', '###### ')): # comply with new markdown standards # not a headline if '#' not followed by whitespace '##no-header': if not l.lstrip('#').startswith(' '): continue # not a headline if more than 6 '#': if len(l) - len(l.lstrip('#')) > 6: continue # headers can be indented by at most 3 spaces: if orig_len - len(l) > 3: continue # ignore empty headers if not set(l) - {'#', ' '}: continue saw_headline = True dashified = dashify_headline(l) if not exclude_h or not dashified[-1] in exclude_h: if id_tag: id_tag = ''\ % (dashified[1]) out_contents.append(id_tag) headlines.append(dashified) out_contents.append(l) if back_links and saw_headline: out_contents.append('[[back to top](#table-of-contents)]') return out_contents, headlines def positioning_headlines(headlines): """ Strips unnecessary whitespaces/tabs if first header is not left-aligned """ left_just = False for row in headlines: if row[-1] == 1: left_just = True break if not left_just: for row in headlines: row[-1] -= 1 return headlines def create_toc(headlines, hyperlink=True, top_link=False, no_toc_header=False): """ Creates the table of contents from the headline list that was returned by the tag_and_collect function. Keyword Arguments: headlines: list of lists e.g., ['Some header lvl3', 'some-header-lvl3', 3] hyperlink: Creates hyperlinks in Markdown format if True, e.g., '- [Some header lvl1](#some-header-lvl1)' top_link: if True, add a id tag for linking the table of contents itself (for the back-to-top-links) no_toc_header: suppresses TOC header if True. Returns a list of headlines for a table of contents in Markdown format, e.g., [' - [Some header lvl3](#some-header-lvl3)', ...] """ processed = [] if not no_toc_header: if top_link: processed.append('\n') processed.append('# Table of Contents') for line in headlines: if hyperlink: item = '%s- [%s](#%s)' % ((line[2]-1)*' ', line[0], line[1]) else: item = '%s- %s' % ((line[2]-1)*' ', line[0]) processed.append(item) processed.append('\n') return processed def build_markdown(toc_headlines, body, spacer=0, placeholder=None): """ Returns a string with the Markdown output contents incl. the table of contents. Keyword arguments: toc_headlines: lines for the table of contents as created by the create_toc function. body: contents of the Markdown file including ID-anchor tags as returned by the tag_and_collect function. spacer: Adds vertical space after the table of contents. Height in pixels. placeholder: If a placeholder string is provided, the placeholder will be replaced by the TOC instead of inserting the TOC at the top of the document """ if spacer: spacer_line = ['\n
\n' % (spacer)] toc_markdown = "\n".join(toc_headlines + spacer_line) else: toc_markdown = "\n".join(toc_headlines) body_markdown = "\n".join(body).strip() if placeholder: markdown = body_markdown.replace(placeholder, toc_markdown) else: markdown = toc_markdown + body_markdown return markdown def output_markdown(markdown_cont, output_file): """ Writes to an output file if `outfile` is a valid path. """ if output_file: with open(output_file, 'w') as out: out.write(markdown_cont) def markdown_toclify(input_file, output_file=None, github=False, back_to_top=False, nolink=False, no_toc_header=False, spacer=0, placeholder=None, exclude_h=None): """ Function to add table of contents to markdown files. Parameters ----------- input_file: str Path to the markdown input file. output_file: str (defaul: None) Path to the markdown output file. github: bool (default: False) Uses GitHub TOC syntax if True. back_to_top: bool (default: False) Inserts back-to-top links below headings if True. nolink: bool (default: False) Creates the table of contents without internal links if True. no_toc_header: bool (default: False) Suppresses the Table of Contents header if True spacer: int (default: 0) Inserts horizontal space (in pixels) after the table of contents. placeholder: str (default: None) Inserts the TOC at the placeholder string instead of inserting the TOC at the top of the document. exclude_h: list (default None) Excludes header levels, e.g., if [2, 3], ignores header levels 2 and 3 in the TOC. Returns ----------- cont: str Markdown contents including the TOC. """ raw_contents = read_lines(input_file) cleaned_contents = remove_lines(raw_contents, remove=('[[back to top]', '