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.
<http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/>
The module interface is compatible with formatters like
"HTML::FormatText", but all parsing etc is done by html2text.
See "HTML::FormatExternal" for the formatting functions and options,
with the following caveats,
- "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.
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).
If set to "UTF-8" then Debian extension "-utf8" option
is used (circa 2009).
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
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