HTML to MHT conversion programmatically

[Vincent Belaïche]

Hello,

I am a newbie in Perl. I have written only a few simples scripts, but
that could make me feel the power of the language.

Now, I am looking for some way to convert an HTML file and the
dependency thereof into an MHT archive. All the files are local on my
hard drive. I looked for that on the internet, in vain.

I thought that Perl is probably the best language to make it, and I
wondered whether that already exists or not. I could not find anything
such thing on the CPAN --- well there are Email::MIME or MIME::Entity
and Email::Sender for MIME encoding, but I am not sure whether they are
flexible enough to do an MHT archive, and I must admit that I am not
expert in MHT archive format. Also I found quite a few HTML parsers, but
I don't know which one is the most suited.

In a nutshell, there seems to be already all the building blocks to make
it in a few lines of code, however nothing ready to work off-the-shelf.

Any feedback or help is welcome.

Vincent.

[Ben Morrow]

Quoth vincent....@gmail.com (Vincent =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bela=EFche?=):

>
> Now, I am looking for some way to convert an HTML file and the
> dependency thereof into an MHT archive. All the files are local on my
> hard drive. I looked for that on the internet, in vain.
>
> I thought that Perl is probably the best language to make it, and I
> wondered whether that already exists or not. I could not find anything
> such thing on the CPAN --- well there are Email::MIME or MIME::Entity
> and Email::Sender for MIME encoding, but I am not sure whether they are
> flexible enough to do an MHT archive, and I must admit that I am not
> expert in MHT archive format.

The MHT format is just a multipart/related MIME entity, isn't it?
Creating one of those with one of the MIME modules should be entirely
straightforward. In this case I would probably recommend MIME::Entity
rather than one of the Email:: modules, because it will let you leave
the attached files as files and convert them on the fly when writing out
the completed email.

> Also I found quite a few HTML parsers, but
> I don't know which one is the most suited.

I would have thought HTML::LinkExtor is what you want in this case,
since all you need to do is find which additional files need archiving.

> In a nutshell, there seems to be already all the building blocks to make
> it in a few lines of code, however nothing ready to work off-the-shelf.

So try to write something, and, if you get stuck, post again.

Ben

[Vincent Belaïche]

Thank you so much with the quick feedback. I will try that. Whether I am
stuck or not I will anyway make it public --- because writing functional
code, does not mean that the code is well written.

VBR,
Vincent.

[johannes falcone]

downlaod opera

open html in opera

saev as mht

DONE

[Vincent Belaïche]

johannes falcone <vispha...@gmail.com> writes:


[...]

>> Any feedback or help is welcome.
>>
>>
>>
>> Vincent.
>
> downlaod opera
>
> open html in opera
>
> saev as mht
>
> DONE

Thank you for the feedback, this is what I am doing, but I wanted to do
that programmatically. Sorry if my first email was not clear enough.

Vincent.

[Henry Law]

On 11/05/13 11:47, Vincent Bela�che wrote:
> Thank you for the feedback, this is what I am doing, but I wanted to do
> that programmatically. Sorry if my first email was not clear enough.

Your mail was perfectly clear. To most of us.

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Henry Law Manchester, England