### Installing markdowncleaner with pip

Source: https://github.com/josk0/markdowncleaner/blob/main/README.md

This snippet demonstrates how to install the `markdowncleaner` library using pip, the Python package installer. This command downloads and installs the necessary packages and their dependencies, making the `MarkdownCleaner` available for use in Python projects.

```bash
pip install markdowncleaner
```

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### Basic Usage of MarkdownCleaner in Python

Source: https://github.com/josk0/markdowncleaner/blob/main/README.md

This snippet illustrates the fundamental usage of `MarkdownCleaner`. It shows how to initialize the cleaner with default settings and then use it to clean content from both a markdown file specified by a `Path` object and a direct markdown string. The cleaned output for the string is printed to the console.

```python
from markdowncleaner import MarkdownCleaner
from pathlib import Path

# Create a cleaner with default patterns
cleaner = MarkdownCleaner()

# Clean a markdown file
result_path = cleaner.clean_markdown_file(Path("input.md"))

# Clean a markdown string
text = "# Title\nSome content here. [1]\n\nReferences\n1. Citation"
cleaned_text = cleaner.clean_markdown_string(text)
print(cleaned_text)
```

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### Loading Custom Cleaning Patterns for MarkdownCleaner in Python

Source: https://github.com/josk0/markdowncleaner/blob/main/README.md

This snippet illustrates how to provide custom cleaning patterns to `MarkdownCleaner`. It shows how to load a set of predefined patterns from a YAML file using `CleaningPatterns.from_yaml()` and then initialize the `MarkdownCleaner` instance with these custom patterns, allowing for highly specific content removal and replacement.

```python
from markdowncleaner import MarkdownCleaner, CleaningPatterns
from pathlib import Path

# Load custom patterns from a YAML file
custom_patterns = CleaningPatterns.from_yaml(Path("my_patterns.yaml"))

# Initialize cleaner with custom patterns
cleaner = MarkdownCleaner(patterns=custom_patterns)
```

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### Customizing Cleaning Options for MarkdownCleaner in Python

Source: https://github.com/josk0/markdowncleaner/blob/main/README.md

This snippet demonstrates how to customize the cleaning behavior of `MarkdownCleaner` using the `CleanerOptions` class. It shows how to enable or disable specific cleaning features like removing short lines, setting a custom minimum line length, and controlling footnote and empty line contraction, before initializing the `MarkdownCleaner` with these custom options.

```python
from markdowncleaner import MarkdownCleaner, CleanerOptions

# Create custom options
options = CleanerOptions()
options.remove_short_lines = True
options.min_line_length = 50  # custom minimum line length
options.remove_duplicate_headlines = False 
options.remove_footnotes_in_text = True
options.contract_empty_lines = True

# Initialize cleaner with custom options
cleaner = MarkdownCleaner(options=options)

# Use the cleaner as before
```

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