url2md: A URL to Markdown Link Converter using Python Script

ProblemI have written nearly 30 weeknotes so far and a recurring section in all weeknotes is the “Link Roundup” where I share interesting links I came across that week (aka Link Dumps). The process of manually fetching the title and author/site name for each link and typing the Markdown link syntax [Title | Author or Publisher](url) got tedious—so I decided to automate it with a Python script. (This would be an example of “Manual until it hurts”.) While the script is not fool-proof and the output requires some tidying; to me, it is a much improved workflow. Maybe you will find some use it in if you do something similar with wrangling URLs and Markdown! Feedback or suggestions for improvement are welcome. Existing SolutionsI couldn’t find anything existing tool, except for Jay who wrote an action script to do something similar for a note app called Drafts (which I’m not familiar with). While researching, I also found sites like shortlink.studio and tiny-online.tools that allow you to…