HTML::FormatText::Html2text - format HTML as plain text using html2text
use HTML::FormatText::Html2text; $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_file ($filename); $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_string ($html_string); $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->new; $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename); $text = $formatter->format ($tree);
HTML::FormatText::Html2text turns HTML into plain text using the html2text program.
HTML::FormatText::Html2text
html2text
http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/
The module interface is compatible with formatters like HTML::FormatText, but all parsing etc is done by html2text.
HTML::FormatText
See HTML::FormatExternal for the formatting functions and options, with the following caveats,
HTML::FormatExternal
input_charset
Currently this option has no effect. Input generally has to be latin-1 only, though the Debian extended html2ext interprets a <meta> charset directive in the HTML header.
html2ext
<meta>
Various & style named or numbered entities are recognised and result in suitable output. The suggestion would be entitized input for maximum portability among html2text versions.
&
output_charset
If set to "ascii" or "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (both case-insensitive) the html2text -ascii option is used, when available (html2text 1.3.2 from Jan 2004).
html2text -ascii
If set to "UTF-8" then Debian extension -utf8 option is used (circa 2009).
-utf8
Apart from this there's no control over the output charset.
HTML::FormatExternal, html2text(1)
http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html
Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2015 Kevin Ryde
HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.
HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
To install HTML::FormatExternal, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::FormatExternal
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::FormatExternal
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.