allow BeautifulSoup objects to be converted

README.rst

@@ -110,6 +110,18 @@ Options may be specified as kwargs to the ``markdownify`` function, or as a
 nested ``Options`` class in ``MarkdownConverter`` subclasses.
 
 
+Converting BeautifulSoup objects
+================================
+
+.. code:: python
+
+    from markdownify import MarkdownConverter
+
+    # Create shorthand method for conversion
+    def md(soup, **options):
+        return ImageBlockConverter(**options).convert_soup(soup)
+
+
 Creating Custom Converters
 ==========================
 

markdownify/__init__.py

@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ class MarkdownConverter(object):
 
     def convert(self, html):
         soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+        return self.convert_soup(soup)
+
+    def convert_soup(self, soup):
         return self.process_tag(soup, convert_as_inline=False, children_only=True)
 
     def process_tag(self, node, convert_as_inline, children_only=False):

tests/test_custom_converter.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 from markdownify import MarkdownConverter
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
 
 class ImageBlockConverter(MarkdownConverter):
@@ -16,3 +17,9 @@ def test_img():
 
     assert md('<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" title="Optional title" />') == '![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg "Optional title")\n\n'
     assert md('<img src="/path/to/img.jpg" alt="Alt text" />') == '![Alt text](/path/to/img.jpg)\n\n'
+
+
+def test_soup():
+    html = '<b>test</b>'
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+    assert MarkdownConverter().convert_soup(soup) == '**test**'