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List:       curl-users
Subject:    RE: Convert HTML from Curl
From:       Jared Ingersoll <jared () cswv ! com>
Date:       2003-11-13 12:48:35
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Hi folks, 

I used html2text from:

http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~mbayer/tools/html2text.html

It's a little slower than Lynx, but it compiled easily on Red Hat 9.0 and
allowed me to set the maximum width, which I was unable to do (or figure out
how to do, more importantly) with the others mentioned below.

html2text -width 500 data.html

Works like a charm...

jared

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel-curl@haxx.se]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 2:41 AM
To: Curl Mailinglist
Subject: Re: Convert HTML from Curl


On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Jared Ingersoll wrote:

> I was wondering if curl has the ability to convert HTML into plain text
> (without wrapping)?

curl can't convert HTML (or other contents) at all.

> I have some data in <table> tags that I want to format into a txt file
> without wrapping. I'm using lynx right now, but it's not working well.

lynx, links, w3c... there are several different text-based browsers you can
try. I bet there exists several other tools for this as well, try searching
on
freshmeat etc, or just google around.

> If curl does not support this and there are other suggestions (on unix),
> feel free to email me off-list (as it may be off-topic) at jared -at- cswv
> -dot- com.

Getting a reply on-list is good too, as it allows others to fill in their
replies and it makes this answer get stored in the archives for future
users'
benefit.

Good luck!

-- 
    Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
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