August

August is a Rust crate & program for converting HTML to plain text. It is specifically intended for rendering HTML emails as text.

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
august = "^1"

and this to your code:

use august;

let input = "<p>Hello</p><i>Here's some HTML!</i>"
println!("{}", august::convert(input, 79));

The output now looks like this:

Hello

/Here's some HTML!/

Command line program

Cargo comes with a little command-line program august that reads HTML from stdin and prints text to stdout. If you've enabled the term-size feature, it uses the terminal width as the default width, otherwise it uses 79. You can override this by passing -w WIDTH as an argument.

Known issues

1. There's no CSS support currently. Some support will probably happen sometime, but it's still unclear what is worth implementing.