allow BeautifulSoup configuration kwargs to be specified (#224)

Signed-off-by: chrispy <chrispy@synopsys.com>

markdownify/__init__.py

@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ def _next_block_content_sibling(el):
 class MarkdownConverter(object):
     class DefaultOptions:
         autolinks = True
-        beautiful_soup_parser = 'html.parser'
+        bs4_options = 'html.parser'
         bullets = '*+-'  # An iterable of bullet types.
         code_language = ''
         code_language_callback = None
@@ -188,11 +188,15 @@ class MarkdownConverter(object):
             raise ValueError('You may specify either tags to strip or tags to'
                              ' convert, but not both.')
 
+        # If a string or list is passed to bs4_options, assume it is a 'features' specification
+        if not isinstance(self.options['bs4_options'], dict):
+            self.options['bs4_options'] = {'features': self.options['bs4_options']}
+
         # Initialize the conversion function cache
         self.convert_fn_cache = {}
 
     def convert(self, html):
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, self.options['beautiful_soup_parser'])
+        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, **self.options['bs4_options'])
         return self.convert_soup(soup)
 
     def convert_soup(self, soup):

markdownify/main.py

@@ -70,12 +70,11 @@ def main(argv=sys.argv[1:]):
     parser.add_argument('-w', '--wrap', action='store_true',
                         help="Wrap all text paragraphs at --wrap-width characters.")
     parser.add_argument('--wrap-width', type=int, default=80)
-    parser.add_argument('-p', '--beautiful-soup-parser',
-                        dest='beautiful_soup_parser',
+    parser.add_argument('--bs4-options',
                         default='html.parser',
-                        help="Specify the Beautiful Soup parser to be used for interpreting HTML markup. Parsers such "
-                             "as html5lib, lxml or even a custom parser as long as it is installed on the execution "
-                             "environment.")
+                        help="Specifies the parser that BeautifulSoup should use to parse "
+                             "the HTML markup. Examples include 'html5.parser', 'lxml', and "
+                             "'html5lib'.")
 
     args = parser.parse_args(argv)
     print(markdownify(**vars(args)))