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+#!/bin/sh -e
+# converts HTML from a URL, file, or stdin to markdown
+# uses an available program to fetch URL and tidy to normalize it first
+
+REQUIRED="tidy"
+SYNOPSIS="converts HTML from a URL, file, or STDIN to markdown-formatted text."
+
+### common.sh
+
+grab_url_with () {
+    url="${1:?internal error: grab_url_with: url required}"
+
+    shift
+    cmdline="$@"
+
+    prog=
+    prog_opts=
+    if [ -n "$cmdline" ]; then
+	eval "set -- $cmdline"
+	prog=$1
+	shift
+	prog_opts="$@"
+    fi
+
+    if [ -z "$prog" ]; then
+	# Locate a sensible web grabber (note the order).
+	for p in wget lynx w3m curl links w3c; do
+		if pathfind $p; then
+		    prog=$p
+		    break
+		fi
+	done
+
+	[ -n "$prog" ] || {
+            errn "$THIS:  Couldn't find a program to fetch the file from URL "
+	    err "(e.g. wget, w3m, lynx, w3c, or curl)."
+	    return 1
+	}
+    else
+	pathfind "$prog" || {
+	    err "$THIS:  No such web grabber '$prog' found; aborting."
+	    return 1
+	}
+    fi
+
+    # Setup proper base options for known grabbers.
+    base_opts=
+    case "$prog" in
+    wget)  base_opts="-O-" ;;
+    lynx)  base_opts="-source" ;;
+    w3m)   base_opts="-dump_source" ;;
+    curl)  base_opts="" ;;
+    links) base_opts="-source" ;;
+    w3c)   base_opts="-n -get" ;;
+    *)     err "$THIS:  unhandled web grabber '$prog'; hope it succeeds."
+    esac
+
+    err "$THIS: invoking '$prog $base_opts $prog_opts $url'..."
+    eval "set -- $base_opts $prog_opts"
+    $prog "$@" "$url"
+}
+
+# Parse command-line arguments
+parse_arguments () {
+    while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+        case "$1" in
+            --encoding=*)
+                wholeopt="$1"
+                # extract encoding from after =
+                encoding="${wholeopt#*=}" ;;
+            -e|--encoding|-encoding)
+                shift
+                encoding="$1" ;; 
+            --grabber=*)
+                wholeopt="$1"
+                # extract encoding from after =
+                grabber="\"${wholeopt#*=}\"" ;;
+            -g|--grabber|-grabber)
+                shift
+                grabber="$1" ;; 
+            *)
+                if [ -z "$argument" ]; then
+                    argument="$1"
+                else
+                    err "Warning:  extra argument '$1' will be ignored."
+                fi ;;
+            esac
+        shift
+    done
+}
+
+argument=
+encoding=
+grabber=
+
+oldifs="$IFS"
+IFS=$NEWLINE
+parse_arguments $ARGS
+IFS="$oldifs"
+
+inurl=
+if [ -n "$argument" ] && ! [ -f "$argument" ]; then
+    # Treat given argument as an URL.
+    inurl="$argument"
+fi
+
+### tempdir.sh
+
+if [ -n "$inurl" ]; then
+    err "Attempting to fetch file from '$inurl'..."
+
+    grabber_out=$THIS_TEMPDIR/grabber.out
+    grabber_log=$THIS_TEMPDIR/grabber.log
+    if ! grab_url_with "$inurl" "$grabber" 1>$grabber_out 2>$grabber_log; then
+        errn "grab_url_with failed"
+        if [ -f $grabber_log ]; then
+            err " with the following error log."
+            err
+            cat >&2 $grabber_log
+        else
+            err .
+        fi
+        exit 1
+    fi
+
+    argument="$grabber_out"
+fi
+
+if [ -z "$encoding" ] && [ "x$argument" != "x" ]; then
+    # Try to determine character encoding if not specified
+    # and input is not STDIN.
+    encoding=$(
+        head "$argument" |
+        LC_ALL=C tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' |
+        sed -ne '/<meta .*content-type.*charset=/ {
+            s/.*charset=["'\'']*\([-a-zA-Z0-9]*\).*["'\'']*/\1/p
+        }'
+    )
+fi
+
+if [ -n "$encoding" ] && pathfind iconv; then
+    alias to_utf8='iconv -f "$encoding" -t utf-8'
+else # assume UTF-8
+    alias to_utf8='cat'
+fi 
+
+htmlinput=$THIS_TEMPDIR/htmlinput
+
+if [ -z "$argument" ]; then
+    to_utf8 > $htmlinput                # read from STDIN
+elif [ -f "$argument" ]; then
+    to_utf8 "$argument" > $htmlinput    # read from file
+else
+    err "File '$argument' not found."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if ! cat $htmlinput | pandoc --ignore-args -r html -w markdown "$@" ; then
+     err "Failed to parse HTML.  Trying again with tidy..."
+     tidy -q -asxhtml -utf8 $htmlinput | \
+        pandoc --ignore-args -r html -w markdown "$@"
+fi