def html2text(data, method='lynx'):
"""
Convert a string consisting of HTML to plain text
for easy difference checking.
Method may be one of:
'lynx' (default) - Use "lynx -dump" for conversion
'html2text' - Use "html2text -nobs" for conversion
're' - A simple regex-based HTML tag stripper
'pyhtml2text' - Use Python module "html2text", keeps link targets
"""
if method == 're':
stripped_tags = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', data)
d = '\n'.join((l.rstrip() for l in stripped_tags.splitlines() if l.strip() != ''))
return d
if method == 'pyhtml2text':
import html2text
pyhtml2text = html2text.HTML2Text()
d = pyhtml2text.handle(data)
return d
if method == 'lynx':
cmd = ['lynx', '-nonumbers', '-dump', '-stdin', '-assume_charset=UTF-8', '-display_charset=UTF-8']
stdout_encoding = 'utf-8'
elif method == 'html2text':
cmd = ['html2text', '-nobs', '-utf8']
stdout_encoding = 'utf-8'
else:
raise ValueError('Unknown html2text method: %r' % (method,))
logger.debug('Command: %r, stdout encoding: %s', cmd, stdout_encoding)
env = {}
env.update(os.environ)
env['LANG'] = 'en_US.utf-8'
env['LC_ALL'] = 'en_US.utf-8'
html2text = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)
stdout, stderr = html2text.communicate(data.encode('utf-8'))
stdout = stdout.decode(stdout_encoding)
if method == 'lynx':
# Lynx translates relative links in the mode we use it to:
# file://localhost/tmp/[RANDOM STRING]/[RELATIVE LINK]
# Recent versions of lynx (seen in 2.8.8pre1-1) do not include the
# "localhost" in the file:// URLs; see Debian bug 732112
stdout = re.sub(r'file://%s/[^/]*/' % (os.environ.get('TMPDIR', '/tmp'),), '', stdout)
# Use the following regular expression to remove the unnecessary
# parts, so that [RANDOM STRING] (changing on each call) does not
# expose itself as change on the website (it's a Lynx-related thing
# Thanks to Evert Meulie for pointing that out
stdout = re.sub(r'file://localhost%s/[^/]*/' % (os.environ.get('TMPDIR', '/tmp'),), '', stdout)
# Also remove file names like L9816-5928TMP.html
stdout = re.sub(r'L\d+-\d+TMP.html', '', stdout)
return stdout.strip()
def html2text(data, baseurl, method, options):
"""
Convert a string consisting of HTML to plain text
for easy difference checking.
Method may be one of:
'lynx' - Use "lynx -dump" for conversion
options: see "lynx -help" output for options that work with "-dump"
'html2text' - Use "html2text -nobs" for conversion
options: https://linux.die.net/man/1/html2text
'bs4' - Use Beautiful Soup library to prettify the HTML
options: "parser" only, bs4 supports "lxml", "html5lib", and "html.parser"
https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#specifying-the-parser-to-use
're' - A simple regex-based HTML tag stripper
'pyhtml2text' - Use Python module "html2text"
options: https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/blob/master/docs/usage.md#available-options
"""
if method == 're':
stripped_tags = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', data)
d = '\n'.join((l.rstrip() for l in stripped_tags.splitlines()
if l.strip() != ''))
return d
if method == 'pyhtml2text':
import html2text
parser = html2text.HTML2Text()
parser.baseurl = baseurl
for k, v in options.items():
setattr(parser, k.lower(), v)
d = parser.handle(data)
return d
if method == 'bs4':
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
parser = options.pop('parser', 'lxml')
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, parser)
d = soup.get_text(strip=True)
return d
if method == 'lynx':
cmd = [
'lynx', '-nonumbers', '-dump', '-stdin', '-assume_charset UTF-8',
'-display_charset UTF-8'
]
elif method == 'html2text':
cmd = ['html2text', '-nobs', '-utf8']
else:
raise ValueError('Unknown html2text method: %r' % (method, ))
stdout_encoding = 'utf-8'
for k, v in options.items():
cmd.append('-%s %s' % (k, v) if v is True else '-%s' % k)
logger.debug('Command: %r, stdout encoding: %s', cmd, stdout_encoding)
env = {}
env.update(os.environ)
env['LANG'] = 'en_US.utf-8'
env['LC_ALL'] = 'en_US.utf-8'
html2text = subprocess.Popen(cmd,
stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
env=env)
stdout, stderr = html2text.communicate(data.encode('utf-8'))
stdout = stdout.decode(stdout_encoding)
if method == 'lynx':
# Lynx translates relative links in the mode we use it to:
# file://localhost/tmp/[RANDOM STRING]/[RELATIVE LINK]
# Recent versions of lynx (seen in 2.8.8pre1-1) do not include the
# "localhost" in the file:// URLs; see Debian bug 732112
stdout = re.sub(
r'file://%s/[^/]*/' % (os.environ.get('TMPDIR', '/tmp'), ), '',
stdout)
# Use the following regular expression to remove the unnecessary
# parts, so that [RANDOM STRING] (changing on each call) does not
# expose itself as change on the website (it's a Lynx-related thing
# Thanks to Evert Meulie for pointing that out
stdout = re.sub(
r'file://localhost%s/[^/]*/' %
(os.environ.get('TMPDIR', '/tmp'), ), '', stdout)
# Also remove file names like L9816-5928TMP.html
stdout = re.sub(r'L\d+-\d+TMP.html', '', stdout)
return stdout.strip()
def html2text(data, method, options):
"""
Convert a string consisting of HTML to plain text
for easy difference checking.
Method may be one of:
'lynx' - Use "lynx -dump" for conversion
options: see "lynx -help" output for options that work with "-dump"
'html2text' - Use "html2text -nobs" for conversion
options: https://linux.die.net/man/1/html2text
'bs4' - Use Beautiful Soup library to prettify the HTML
options: "parser" only, bs4 supports "lxml", "html5lib", and "html.parser"
http://beautiful-soup-4.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#specifying-the-parser-to-use
're' - A simple regex-based HTML tag stripper
'pyhtml2text' - Use Python module "html2text"
options: https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text/blob/master/docs/usage.md#available-options
"""
if method == 're':
stripped_tags = re.sub(r'<[^>]*>', '', data)
d = '\n'.join((l.rstrip() for l in stripped_tags.splitlines() if l.strip() != ''))
return d
if method == 'pyhtml2text':
import html2text
parser = html2text.HTML2Text()
for k, v in options.items():
setattr(parser, k.lower(), v)
d = parser.handle(data)
return d
if method == 'bs4':
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
parser = options.pop('parser', 'html.parser')
soup = BeautifulSoup(data, parser)
d = soup.get_text(strip=True)
return d
if method == 'lynx':
cmd = ['lynx', '-nonumbers', '-dump', '-stdin', '-assume_charset UTF-8', '-display_charset UTF-8']
elif method == 'html2text':
cmd = ['html2text', '-nobs', '-utf8']
else:
raise ValueError('Unknown html2text method: %r' % (method,))
stdout_encoding = 'utf-8'
for k, v in options.items():
cmd.append('-%s %s' % (k, v) if v is True else '-%s' % k)
logger.debug('Command: %r, stdout encoding: %s', cmd, stdout_encoding)
env = {}
env.update(os.environ)
env['LANG'] = 'en_US.utf-8'
env['LC_ALL'] = 'en_US.utf-8'
html2text = subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdin=subprocess.PIPE, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, env=env)
stdout, stderr = html2text.communicate(data.encode('utf-8'))
stdout = stdout.decode(stdout_encoding)
if method == 'lynx':
# Lynx translates relative links in the mode we use it to:
# file://localhost/tmp/[RANDOM STRING]/[RELATIVE LINK]
# Recent versions of lynx (seen in 2.8.8pre1-1) do not include the
# "localhost" in the file:// URLs; see Debian bug 732112
stdout = re.sub(r'file://%s/[^/]*/' % (os.environ.get('TMPDIR', '/tmp'),), '', stdout)
# Use the following regular expression to remove the unnecessary
# parts, so that [RANDOM STRING] (changing on each call) does not
# expose itself as change on the website (it's a Lynx-related thing
# Thanks to Evert Meulie for pointing that out
stdout = re.sub(r'file://localhost%s/[^/]*/' % (os.environ.get('TMPDIR', '/tmp'),), '', stdout)
# Also remove file names like L9816-5928TMP.html
stdout = re.sub(r'L\d+-\d+TMP.html', '', stdout)
return stdout.strip()