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Printing Web Pages

 


U5Webmaster
newbie

Jul 25, 2001, 10:51 AM

Post #1 of 2 (1050 views)
Printing Web Pages Can't Post
There used to be a program in Perl called PrintIt that strips out everthing but text on a page and makes the text all black in order to have a printable page. The site has disappeared, and the only other script I can find is not as good and costs. Does anyone know of a smallish script that can do this? It's important. Email me at webmaster@unit5.org if you know where I can get a copy of PrintIt or something similar.

Thanks!

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Kanji
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Jul 26, 2001, 5:55 PM

Post #2 of 2 (1039 views)
Re: Printing Web Pages [In reply to] Can't Post
It may be easier to abuse the limitationa of a text-only browser such as w3m or lynx (both of which can be run as browser -dump http://www.perlguru.com/ to get text only output).

Alternately, if you'd prefer to stick with Perl, then take a look at the LWP and the HTML::Parser suite of modules.

The former even comes with a demo script that does what you're looking for (lwp-request -o text http://www.perlguru.com/).


 
 


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