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#!/bin/sh -e
# converts html to markdown
# uses an available program to fetch URL and tidy to normalize it first

[ -n "$(which pandoc)" ] || {
    echo >&2 "You need 'pandoc' to use this program!"
    exit 1
}
[ -n "$(which tidy)" ] || {
    echo >&2 "You need 'tidy' to use this program!"
    exit 1
}

if [ -z "$1" ] || [ -f $1 ]; then 
    tidy -utf8 $1 2>/dev/null | pandoc -r html -w markdown -s | iconv -f utf-8
else
    # Treat given argument as an URL.  Locate a
    # sensible text based browser (note the order).
    for p in wget lynx w3m curl links w3c; do
        if which $p >/dev/null; then
            DUMPER=$p
            break
        fi
    done
    # Setup proper options.
    case "$DUMPER" in
        wget)  OPT="-O-" ;;
        lynx)  OPT="-source" ;;
        w3m)   OPT="-dump_source" ;;
        curl)  OPT="" ;;
        links) OPT="-source" ;;
        w3c)   OPT="-n -get" ;;
        "")    echo -n >&2 "Needs a program to fetch the URL "
               echo -n >&2 "(e.g. wget, w3m, lynx, w3c, or curl)."
               exit 1 ;;
    esac
    # Fetch and feed to pandoc.
    $DUMPER $OPT $1 2>/dev/null | tidy -utf8 2>/dev/null | pandoc -r html -w markdown -s | iconv -f utf-8
fi