[Catalyst] HTML to plain text conversion

Peter Karman peter at peknet.com
Mon Jan 8 19:19:35 GMT 2007



Xavier Robin scribbled on 1/8/07 11:14 AM:

> Do you know a (catalyst plugin|perl module|external tool) that converts HTML 
> to plain text? I mean, keeping some formatting (especially lists and 
> links...), not just stripping HTML tags...
> 

I use the w3m tool:

  % w3m -dump file.html > file.txt

I like it because it preserves tables pretty well.
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