HTML::FormatText::Lynx - format HTML as plain text using lynx
use HTML::FormatText::Lynx; $text = HTML::FormatText::Lynx->format_file ($filename); $text = HTML::FormatText::Lynx->format_string ($html_string); $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Lynx->new (rightmargin => 60); $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename); $text = $formatter->format ($tree);
HTML::FormatText::Lynx turns HTML into plain text using the lynx program.
HTML::FormatText::Lynx
lynx
http://lynx.isc.org/
The module interface is compatible with formatters like HTML::FormatText, but all parsing etc is done by lynx.
HTML::FormatText
See HTML::FormatExternal for the formatting functions and options, all of which are supported by HTML::FormatText::Lynx, with the following caveats
HTML::FormatExternal
leftmargin
rightmargin
Prior to the -nomargins option of Lynx 2.8.6dev.12 (June 2005) an additional 3 space margin is always applied within the requested left and right positions.
-nomargins
input_charset
output_charset
Note that "latin-1" etc is not accepted, it must be "iso-8859-1" etc.
output_charset becomes the -display_charset option and can't be used on very old lynx which doesn't have that option (eg. lynx circa 2.8.1). Perhaps in the future output_charset could be dropped if it's already what will be output, or throw a Perl error when unsupported.
-display_charset
justify
If true then -justify is passed to lynx to have all lines in the paragraph padded out with extra spaces to the given rightmargin (or default right margin).
-justify
unique_links
If true then -unique_urls is passed to have lynx give its link footnotes just once for each distinct URL, re-used when the same URL occurs more than once in the document. This module option is per HTML::FormatText::WithLinks.
-unique_urls
HTML::FormatExternal, lynx(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.