diff --git a/hammond-gtk/Cargo.toml b/hammond-gtk/Cargo.toml
index a59c1ef..810cbbb 100644
--- a/hammond-gtk/Cargo.toml
+++ b/hammond-gtk/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ log = "0.3.8"
 loggerv = "0.6.0"
 open = "1.2.1"
 rayon = "0.9.0"
+regex = "0.2.3"
 
 [dependencies.diesel]
 features = ["sqlite"]
diff --git a/hammond-gtk/src/main.rs b/hammond-gtk/src/main.rs
index 5afcb5f..d231464 100644
--- a/hammond-gtk/src/main.rs
+++ b/hammond-gtk/src/main.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ extern crate hammond_downloader;
 extern crate log;
 extern crate loggerv;
 extern crate open;
+extern crate regex;
 // extern crate rayon;
 
 // use rayon::prelude::*;
diff --git a/hammond-gtk/src/utils.rs b/hammond-gtk/src/utils.rs
index 14e8b46..5402b90 100644
--- a/hammond-gtk/src/utils.rs
+++ b/hammond-gtk/src/utils.rs
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ use hammond_downloader::downloader;
 use std::{thread, time};
 use std::cell::RefCell;
 use std::sync::mpsc::{channel, Receiver};
+use std::borrow::Cow;
 
 use content;
+use regex::Regex;
 
 type Foo = RefCell<Option<(gtk::Stack, Receiver<bool>)>>;
 
@@ -69,6 +71,18 @@ pub fn get_pixbuf_from_path(pd: &Podcast) -> Option<Pixbuf> {
     Pixbuf::new_from_file_at_scale(&img_path, 256, 256, true).ok()
 }
 
+#[allow(dead_code)]
+// WIP: parse html to markup
+pub fn html_to_markup(s: &mut str) -> Cow<str> {
+    s.trim();
+    s.replace('&', "&amp;");
+    s.replace('<', "&lt;");
+    s.replace('>', "&gt;");
+
+    let re = Regex::new("(?P<url>https?://[^\\s&,)(\"]+(&\\w=[\\w._-]?)*(#[\\w._-]+)?)").unwrap();
+    re.replace_all(s, "<a href=\"$url\">$url</a>")
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use hammond_data::Source;