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):

    *   HTML::FormatText::Elinks (using external program 'elinks')

    *   HTML::FormatText::Links (using external program 'links')

    *   HTML::FormatText::W3m (using external program 'w3m')

    *   HTML::FormatText::Lynx (using external program 'lynx')

    *   HTML::FormatText::WithLinks::AndTables

    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.

