html2wiki - Man Page

convert HTML into wiki markup

Synopsis

html2wiki [options] [file]

Commonly used options:

    --dialect=dialect    Dialect name, e.g. "MediaWiki" (required unless
                         the WCDIALECT environment variable is used)
    --encoding=encoding  Source encoding (default is 'utf-8')
    --base-uri=uri       Base URI for relative links
    --wiki-uri=uri       URI fragment for wiki links
    --wrap-in-html       Wrap input in <html> and </html> (enabled by default).
                         Use --no-wrap-in-html to disable.
    --escape-entities    Escape HTML entities within text elements (enabled by
                         default). Use --no-escape-entities to disable.

    --list               List installed dialects and exit
    --options            List all recognized options (except for negations
                         such as --no-wrap-in-html)
    --help               Show this message and exit

    Additional options, including those corresponding to dialect
    attributes, are also supported. Consult the html2wiki man page for
    details.

Example:

    html2wiki --dialect MediaWiki --encoding iso-8859-1 \
        --base-uri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ \
        --wiki-uri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ \
        input.html > output.wiki

Description

html2wiki is a command-line interface to HTML::WikiConverter, which it uses to convert HTML to wiki markup.

Dialects

If the dialect you provide in --dialect is not installed on your system (e.g. if you specify MediaWiki but have not installed its dialect module, HTML::WikiConverter::MediaWiki) a fatal error will be issued. Use html2wiki --list to list all available dialects on your system. Additional dialects may be downloaded from the CPAN.

Options

Correspondence of options and attributes

Each of the options accepted by html2wiki corresponds to an HTML::WikiConverter attribute. Commonly used options described in html2wiki --help therefore correspond to attributes discussed in "ATTRIBUTES" in HTML::WikiConverter. That section also contains other attributes that may be used as html2wiki command-line options.

Mapping an attribute name to an option name

While related, option names are not identical to their corresponding attribute names. The only difference is that attribute names use underscores to separate words while option names use hyphens. For example, the base_uri attribute corresponds to the --base-uri command-line option.

Additional options defined in dialect modules

Individual dialects may define their own attributes, and therefore make available their own command-line options to html2wiki, in addition to the ones defined by HTML::WikiConverter. The same rules described above apply for converting between these attribute names and their corresponding command-line option names. For example, Markdown supports an unordered_list_style attribute that takes a string value. To use this attribute on the command line, one would use the --unordered-list-style option. Consult individual dialect man pages for a list of supported attributes.

Options that are enabled by default

Attributes that take boolean values may be enabled by default. The wrap_in_html attribute is one such example. Because of this, html2wiki will effectively behave by default as if --wrap-in-html had been specified in every invokation. If this is not desired, the option name may be prefixed with no- to disable the option, as in --no-wrap-in-html.

Options that take multiple values

Some attributes (eg, wiki_uri and strip_tags) accept an array of values. To accommodate this in html2wiki, such options can be specified more than once on the command line. For example, to specify that only comment and script elements should be stripped from HTML:

  % html2wiki --strip-tags ~comment --strip-tags script ...

Input/Output

Input is taken from STDIN, so you may pipe the output from another program into html2wiki. For example:

  curl http://example.com/input.html | html2wiki --dialect MediaWiki

You may also specify a file to read HTML from:

  html2wiki --dialect MediaWiki input.html

Output is sent to STDOUT, though you may redirect it on the command line:

   html2wiki --dialect MediaWiki input.html > output.wiki

Or you may pipe it into another program:

   html2wiki --dialect MediaWiki input.html | less

Author

David J. Iberri, <diberri@cpan.org>

See Also

HTML::WikiConverter

Info

2024-07-19 perl v5.40.0 User Contributed Perl Documentation