Print HTML file via shell command

[Leon Pu]

Hi all,

is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?

Looking forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Leon

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[Tim]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 05:49 -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?

It should be.  Try a text-mode web browser like Lynx.

[Leon Pu]

--- Tim  wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 05:49 -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?
>
> It should be.  Try a text-mode web browser like Lynx.

My HTML includes image, is there any other way?

Thanks for your reploy.

Best regards,
Leon

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[Derek Martin]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:49:41AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?

Yes.  But, it's not clear what you're trying to accomplish...  Your
question is a little vague.  Where do you want the file to print?  Do
you want the contents of the file printed, or do you want the
formatted web page printed?

[Rodolfo Alcazar Portillo]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 10:47 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:49:41AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?

Try this options. curl gets all html code. lynx -dump gets visible text
layout.

[root@rodolfoap bin]# curl URL

[root@rodolfoap bin]# lynx -dump URL

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[Leon Pu]

--- Derek Martin  wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:49:41AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?
>
> Yes.  But, it's not clear what you're trying to accomplish...  Your
> question is a little vague.  Where do you want the file to print?  Do
> you want the contents of the file printed, or do you want the
> formatted web page printed?

I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not the HTML
source.

It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one shell
command likes [htmllpr foo.html].

If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command
directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or PostScript
by shell then I can print out?

Thanks for your reply.

Best regards,
Leon

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[Berna Massingill]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 05:49:41AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > is it possbile to print out a HTML file via shell command?
> > >
> > > Yes.  But, it's not clear what you're trying to accomplish...  Your
> > > question is a little vague.  Where do you want the file to print?  Do
> > > you want the contents of the file printed, or do you want the
> > > formatted web page printed?
> >
> > I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not the HTML
> >  source.
> >
> > It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one shell
> >  command likes [htmllpr foo.html].
> >
> > If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command
> >  directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or PostScript
> >  by shell then I can print out?
> >
> > Thanks for your reply.

There's a program "html2ps" that I think will do what you want.  It's a
Perl script, and a Google search for "html2ps" should find it.

-- blm

[Dave Cross]

On 11/1/05, Berna Massingill  wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > > I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not the HTML
> > >  source.
> > >
> > > It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one shell
> > >  command likes [htmllpr foo.html].
> > >
> > > If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command
> > >  directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or PostScript
> > >  by shell then I can print out?
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply.
>
> There's a program "html2ps" that I think will do what you want.  It's a
> Perl script, and a Google search for "html2ps" should find it.

Last time I tried to use that, it was a little clunky. It may have
improved in the last couple of years though.

Given that Firefox has a pretty decent 'print to ps' option, it's
disappointing that you can't access it from the command line. It would
be great to be able to script stuff like

$ firefox --as_ps http://example.com/ > example.ps

Dave...

[Leon Pu]

--- Dave Cross  wrote:
> On 11/1/05, Berna Massingill  wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > > > I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not
>
> the HTML
> > > > source.
> > > >
> > > > It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one
>
> shell
> > > > command likes [htmllpr foo.html].
> > > >
> > > > If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command
> > > >  directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or
>
> PostScript
> > > > by shell then I can print out?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for your reply.
> >
> > There's a program "html2ps" that I think will do what you want.
>
> It's a
> > Perl script, and a Google search for "html2ps" should find it.
>
> Last time I tried to use that, it was a little clunky. It may have
> improved in the last couple of years though.

I also found this tool, I will try it later.
> Given that Firefox has a pretty decent 'print to ps' option, it's
> disappointing that you can't access it from the command line. It
> would
> be great to be able to script stuff like
>
> $ firefox --as_ps http://example.com/ > example.ps

I was shocked that web browsers cannot print html file via command,
even these browsers have their own shell command.

Lynx can dump the web page to plain text, but the character size will
also lost together with images.

Leon

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[Berna Massingill]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:15:18AM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> > On 11/1/05, Berna Massingill  wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:02:04AM -0800, Leon Pu wrote:
> > > > > I want to print out the HTML file in its web page format, not the HTML
> > > > >  source.
> > > > >
> > > > > It's better to print out the HTML file in web format via one shell
> > > > >  command likes [htmllpr foo.html].
> > > > >
> > > > > If there is no possibility to print out HTML via shell command
> > > > >  directly, is it possbile to convert the HTML file to PDF or PostScript
> > > > >  by shell then I can print out?
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for your reply.
> > >
> > > There's a program "html2ps" that I think will do what you want.  It's a
> > > Perl script, and a Google search for "html2ps" should find it.
> >
> > Last time I tried to use that, it was a little clunky. It may have
> >  improved in the last couple of years though.

The most recent version I found with a quick search is very similar
to the two-year-old version I've used.  "Clunky" is apt, but I've
found the program useful for doing with the OP describes, well worth
what I paid for it.
> > Given that Firefox has a pretty decent 'print to ps' option, it's
> >  disappointing that you can't access it from the command line. It would
> >  be great to be able to script stuff like
> >
> > $ firefox --as_ps http://example.com/ > example.ps

That would indeed be nice.

-- blm