NAME

HTML::ExtractMain - Extract the main content of a web page

VERSION

Version 0.62

SYNOPSIS

    use HTML::ExtractMain qw( extract_main_html );

    my $html = <<'END';
    <div id="header">Header</div>
    <div id="nav"><a href="/">Home</a></div>
    <div id="body">
        <p>Foo</p>
        <p>Baz</p>
    </div>
    <div id="footer">Footer</div>
    END

    my $main_html = extract_main_html($html);
    if (defined $main_html) {
	# do something with $main_html here
        # $main_html is '<div id="body"><p>Foo</p><p>Baz</p></div>'
    }

EXPORT

extract_main_html is optionally exported

FUNCTIONS

extract_main_html

extract_main_html takes HTML content, and uses the Readability algorithm to detect the main body of the page, usually skipping headers, footers, navigation, etc.

It takes a single argument, either an HTML string, or an HTML::TreeBuilder tree. (If passed a tree, the tree will be modified and destroyed.)

If the HTML's main content is found, it's returned as an XHTML snippet. The returned HTML will not look like what you put in. (Source formatting, e.g. indentation, will be removed, and you may get back XHTML when you put in HTML.)

If a most relevant block of content is not found, extract_main_html returns undef.

AUTHOR

Anirvan Chatterjee, <anirvan at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-html-extractmain at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=HTML-ExtractMain. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc HTML::ExtractMain

You can also look for information at:

* RT: CPAN's request tracker: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=HTML-ExtractMain
* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation: http://annocpan.org/dist/HTML-ExtractMain
* CPAN Ratings: http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/HTML-ExtractMain
* Search CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/HTML-ExtractMain/

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Readability algorithm is ported from Arc90's JavaScript original, built as part of the excellent Readability application, online at http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/, repository at http://code.google.com/p/arc90labs-readability/.

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.