#html2text (the Python tool, https://alir3z4.github.io/html2text, in Debian as python3-html2text which then provides a "html2markdown" binary) converts HTML into Markdown and (with the right CLI options) does a pretty good job, too.
From there, you can use a good Markdown renderer like lowdown to get an awesome experience β _if_ your terminal supports OSC 8 hyperlinks.
Like, look at this. It still has a few quirks, but for an HTML email in the terminal? It's fucking beautiful.
But no OSC 8 in #NeoMutt. π
#ELinks with `-dump-color-mode 2 -colors 1` has colors and numbered links
#links2 with `-html-numbered-links 1` is monochrome, but has numbered links
#Lynx too, but its output looks more messy to me.
#w3m doesn't highlight links and doesn't output link URLs at all.
#Pandoc can't handle table layouts, which unfortunately are still very common in commercial emails.
#HTML2Text (the C++ tool, https://gitlab.com/grobian/html2text) does a decent job and supports bold & underline in `less` and NeoMutt's pager.
Last week I deployed a change to how I generate plain text versions of content on my website. This week I changed it again. And updated additional post types to use Markdown as their editing and storage format.
#Html #WebDevelopment #Indieweb #Markdown #BeautifulSoup #Changelog #Microformats #Mistune #Html2Text
I've just published #html2text 0.11.0. Mainly a few bugfixes, but I've also had to bump the MSRV to 1.63 due to some dependencies. That's the version on Debian stable, so that seems like a reasonable point.
https://crates.io/crates/html2text
I have given up on running the tests in CI on the minimum supported rust version, though - it didn't seem worth adding workarounds to pin dependencies of dev-dependencies to old versions supporting 1.63.
@vic Use some of his code https://github.com/aaronsw (I was maintaining #html2text for some time after his death).
That's better. I've released #html2text 0.7.1, adding a bit of extra CSS support, notably:
* recognise display: none
* Config::add_css(), which allows adding new CSS rules to apply.
My aoc-cli PR now uses `.add_css(".lavafall: { display: none }")` to work around the bad output.
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