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html2text(1)                         General Commands Manual                         html2text(1)

NAME
       html2text - an advanced HTML-to-text converter

SYNOPSIS
       html2text -help
       html2text -version
       html2text  [  -unparse  | -check ] [ -debug-scanner ] [ -debug-parser ] [ -rcfile path ] [
       -style ( compact | pretty ) ] [ -width width ] [ -o output-file ] [ -nobs  ]  [  -ascii  |
       -utf8 ] [ -nometa ] [ input-file ...  ]

DESCRIPTION
       html2text reads HTML documents from the input-files, formats each of them into a stream of
       plain text characters, and writes the result to standard output (or into  output-file,  if
       the -o command line option is used).

       If  no input-files are specified on the command line, html2text reads from standard input.
       A dash as the input-file is an alternate way to specify standard input.

       html2text understands all HTML 3.2 constructs, but can render only part of them due to the
       limitations  of the text output format. However, the program attempts to provide good sub-
       stitutes for the elements it cannot render.  html2text parses HTML 4 input, too,  but  not
       always as successful as other HTML processors. It also accepts syntactically incorrect in-
       put, and attempts to interpret it "reasonably".

       The way html2text formats the HTML documents is controlled by formatting  properties  read
       from  an RC file.  html2text attempts to read $HOME/.html2textrc (or the file specified by
       the -rcfile command line option); if that file cannot be read, html2text attempts to  read
       /etc/html2textrc.  If no RC file can be read (or if the RC file does not override all for-
       matting properties), then "reasonable" defaults are assumed. The RC  file  format  is  de-
       scribed in the html2textrc(5) manual page.

       Debian   version   of   html2text   also   can   do   input   and   output  recoding  (see
       /usr/share/doc/html2text/README.Debian for more info).  html2text tries to fetch  encoding
       from  HTML  document.  If encoding is not specified, you can use -ascii and -utf8 options.
       Output is converted to user's locale charset (LC_CTYPE).

OPTIONS
       -nometa
              By default, Debian version of html2text use 'meta http-equiv' tag for input  recod-
              ing. This option cancels this behavior.

       -ascii By default, when -nometa is supplied, html2text uses UTF-8 for the output. Specify-
              ing this option, plain ASCII is used instead. To find out how non-ASCII  characters
              are rendered, refer to the file "ascii.substitutes".

       -utf8  By  default,  when  -nometa  is  supplied, html2text uses ISO 8859-1 for the input.
              Specifying this option, UTF-8 is used instead (both for input and output). This op-
              tion implies -nobs.

       -check This  option  is  for diagnostic purposes: The HTML document is only parsed and not
              processed otherwise. In this mode of operation, html2text will report on parse  er-
              rors  and  scan  errors,  which  it does not in other modes of operation. Note that
              parse and scan errors are not fatal for html2text, but may cause mis-interpretation
              of the HTML code and/or portions of the document being swallowed.

       -debug-parser
              Let  html2text report on the tokens being shifted, rules being applied, etc., while
              scanning the HTML document. This option is for diagnostic purposes.

       -debug-scanner
              Let html2text report on each lexical token scanned, while scanning the  HTML  docu-
              ment. This option is for diagnostic purposes.

       -help  Print command line summary and exit.

       -nobs  By  default, original html2text renders underlined letters with sequences like "un-
              derscore-backspace-character" and boldface letters like  "character-backspace-char-
              acter".  Because  of issues with UTF-8, Debian version of html2text doesn't produce
              backspaces, so this option really does nothing.

       -o output-file
              Write the output to output-file instead of standard output.  A  dash  as  the  out-
              put-file is an alternate way to specify the standard output.

       -rcfile path
              Attempt to read the file specified in path as RC file.

       -style ( compact | pretty )
              Style  pretty changes some of the default values of the formatting parameters docu-
              mented in html2textrc(5).  To find out which and how the formatting  parameter  de-
              faults are changed, check the file "pretty.style". If this option is omitted, style
              compact is assumed as default.

       -unparse
              This option is for diagnostic purposes: Instead of formatting the parsed  document,
              generate  HTML  code,  that is guaranteed to be syntactically correct. If html2text
              has problems parsing a syntactically incorrect HTML document, this option may  help
              you to understand what html2text thinks that the original HTML code means.

       -version
              Print program version and exit.

       -width width
              By  default,  html2text formats the HTML documents for a screen width of 79 charac-
              ters. If redirecting the output into a file, or if your terminal has a width  other
              than  80  characters,  or  if you just want to get an idea how html2text deals with
              large tables and different terminal widths, you may want  to  specify  a  different
              width.

FILES
       /etc/html2textrc
              System wide parser configuration file.

       $HOME/.html2textrc
              Personal parser configuration file, overrides the system wide values.

CONFORMING TO
       HTML 3.2 (HTML 3.2 Reference Specification - http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32),

RESTRICTIONS
       Debian version of html2text have no http support. Use html2text through pipes with curl or
       wget instead. See README.Debian for more information.

       html2text was written to convert HTML 3.2 documents. When using it with  HTML  4  or  even
       XHTML  1  documents, some constructs present only in these HTML versions might not be ren-
       dered.

AUTHOR
       html2text was written up to version 1.2.2 by Arno Unkrig <arno AT unkrig.de> for  GMRS  Soft-
       ware GmbH, Unterschleissheim.

       Current maintainer and primary download location is:
       Martin Bayer <mail AT mbayer.de>
       http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/files.shtml

       This man page was modified for Debian by Eugene V. Lyubimkin <jackyf.devel AT gmail.com> <>

SEE ALSO
       html2textrc(5), less(1), more(1)

                                            2008-09-20                               html2text(1)

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