HTML::FormatText::Html2text - format HTML as plain text using html2text

 use HTML::FormatText::Html2text;
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_file ($filename);
 $text = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->format_string ($html_string);

 $formatter = HTML::FormatText::Html2text->new;
 $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new_from_file ($filename);
 $text = $formatter->format ($tree);

HTML::FormatText::Html2text turns HTML into plain text using the html2text program.

http://www.mbayer.de/html2text/

The module interface is compatible with formatters like HTML::FormatText, but all parsing etc is done by html2text.

See HTML::FormatExternal for the formatting functions and options, with the following caveats,

output_charset

If set to "ascii" or "ANSI_X3.4-1968" (both case-insensitive) the -ascii option is used, when available (html2text 1.3.2 from Jan 2004). Apart from that there's no control over the output charset.

input_charset

Currently this option has no effect, input generally has to be latin-1 only (but with some further characters accepted as & style named entities).

HTML::FormatExternal

http://user42.tuxfamily.org/html-formatexternal/index.html

Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010 Kevin Ryde

HTML-FormatExternal is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version.

HTML-FormatExternal is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with HTML-FormatExternal. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.