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Super Powerful Tool for Converting Web Pages to Text in Command Line
Software Name: HtoX32c
This is the command line version of HtoX32, with strong customizable functions and very ideal conversion effects. I have used many html2txt - like software, and this is the only one whose conversion effect satisfies me. This is a work of Japanese, so the interface is in Japanese. I referred to the Chinese - localized version of HtoX32 and the usage experience to localize it. But it was not localized now, it was a long time ago, and I just dug it out from the bottom of the box. I don't understand Japanese, and in order to fill bytes, the localization quality is very poor. Sweat for myself, such a thing dares to be posted. When using it, be sure to pay attention to adding the /IP parameter to not do encoding conversion, otherwise the converted things will be impossible for anyone to understand. I hope the recommended software can bring a little convenience to everyone when organizing web page materials.

Thanks to the moderator for providing such a good tool, download and collect it~:)

Why is it garbled after conversion? Still prefer wget + sed, and think HTML tags are sometimes really useful

RE vkill
The garbled code issue has been mentioned in the top post. You must add the /IP parameter.
HtoX32c and processing with sed, awk, etc. have different focuses. The former is suitable for converting the whole article, and the latter is suitable for extracting partial information. If HTML tags are split into multiple lines, processing with sed, etc. will be a bit more troublesome.

Originally posted by Wú Nài Hé at 2006-11-27 23:24:
RE vkill
Regarding the garbled code, it has been mentioned in the top post. You must add the /IP parameter.
HtoX32c and the processing of sed, awk, etc. each have their own focuses. The former is suitable for converting the entire article, while the latter is suitable for extracting partial information〠...

The splitting of HTML tags into multiple lines is indeed a problem. It's really difficult to handle when using sed~ Hehe~ They each have their own focuses

If HTML tags are split into multiple lines, handling them with sed and others will be a bit more complicated.

Personally, I think it's better to use IE to do this kind of manual work to ensure the effect is the same as what users see in IE

htm2txt.vbs
set oDOM = WScript.GetObject(WScript.Arguments(0)) do until oDOM.readyState = "complete" WScript.sleep 200 loop WScript.Echo oDOM.Body.InnerText

Usage examples:
Convert web pages in .chm to txt
cscript //NoLogo //e:vbscript htm2txt.vbs ms-its:C:\WINDOWS\Help\ntcmds.chm::/ntcmds.htm > "%UserProfile%\Desktop\Nt Command Line.txt"

Convert URL to txt
cscript //NoLogo //e:vbscript htm2txt.vbs http://www.Google.com > "%UserProfile%\Desktop\Google Homepage.txt"

Convert html file to txt
cscript //NoLogo //e:vbscript htm2txt.vbs D:\test.htm > D:\test.txt
Note: Here, D:\test.htm must be written with the complete full path

[ Last edited by electronixtar on 2006-11-28 at 11:38 PM ]

Why did I get an error with the electronixtar script!! The cmd display is in the attached file!!!!

Originally posted by lotus516 at 2006-11-28 12:04:
Why did I get an error with electronixtar's script!! The cmd display is in the attached file!!!!

　　Carefully check your file name and path, as well as whether the file exists and if there are spaces in the path, and you will know the answer.

Why did I get an error with electronixtar's script!! The cmd display is in the attached file!!!!


　　Carefully check your file name and path, as well as whether the file exists and if there are spaces in the path, and you will know the answer.

Forgot to mention, relative paths are not supported

Originally posted by lxmxn at 2006-11-28 12:48:


　　Check your file name, path carefully, as well as whether the file exists and if there are spaces in the path, then you will know the answer.

It's strange. My path has no spaces, it's an absolute path, and the file exists, but it's still wrong!!! Still see the attachment!!!! I took screenshots of the error and the path!!!

RE electronixtar

Thank you, brother, for the VBS script. I also know the power of VBS, but I can only hope to study it in the future. Why is VBS so slow at processing characters?

Why is VBS so slow at processing characters?

It's not that VBS is slow, but that the IE loading speed is slow. Those few lines are parsed by calling the IE kernel mshtml.dll.

[ Last edited by electronixtar on 2006-11-30 at 07:19 AM ]

re lotus516

This is strange, my path has no spaces, it's an absolute path, and the file exists, but it's still wrong!!! Still see the attachment!!!! I took screenshots of the error and the path!!!

You can try the form like file://E:/E-books/1/0001.htm. Judging from the icon of your htm file, I guess you have modified the htm file association, which may have a certain impact on the effect of the code.

[ Last edited by electronixtar on 2006-11-30 at 07:18 AM ]