NAME

HTML::FormatText::Any - Render HTML as text using one of multiple backends

VERSION

This document describes version 0.001 of HTML::FormatText::Any (from Perl distribution HTML-FormatText-Any), released on 2019-01-14.

FUNCTIONS

html2text

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):

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)

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/HTML-FormatText-Any.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-HTML-FormatText-Any.

BUGS

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.

SEE ALSO

html2text. CLI for this module.

html2txt. a simpler HTML rendering utility which basically just strips HTML tags from HTML source code.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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.