HTML::FormatText::Any - Render HTML as text using one of multiple backends
This document describes version 0.001 of HTML::FormatText::Any (from Perl distribution HTML-FormatText-Any), released on 2019-01-14.
Usage:
html2text(%args) -> [status, msg, payload, meta]
Render HTML as text using one of multiple backends.
Backends are tried in the following order (order is chosen based on rendering quality):
HTML::FormatText::Elinks (using external program 'elinks')
HTML::FormatText::Links (using external program 'links')
HTML::FormatText::W3m (using external program 'w3m')
HTML::FormatText::Lynx (using external program 'lynx')
HTML::FormatText::WithLinks::AndTables
This function is not exported by default, but exportable.
Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments):
html* => str
Returns an enveloped result (an array).
First element (status) is an integer containing HTTP status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element (msg) is a string containing error message, or 'OK' if status is 200. Third element (payload) is optional, the actual result. Fourth element (meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information.
Return value: (any)
Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-FormatText-Any.
Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-HTML-FormatText-Any.
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=HTML-FormatText-Any
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
html2text. CLI for this module.
html2txt. a simpler HTML rendering utility which basically just strips HTML tags from HTML source code.
perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>
This software is copyright (c) 2019 by perlancar@cpan.org.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.
To install HTML::FormatText::Any, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm HTML::FormatText::Any
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install HTML::FormatText::Any
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.