What's the best way to render raw HTML and print it (to a printer) from the command-line?

Question

Put another way, here's my web page:

/usr/bin/curl --cookie ~/.cookies 'http://somewhere.com'

And I'm looking for a command that goes something like

/usr/bin/curl --cookie ~/.cookies 'http://somewhere.com' | render_raw_html_to_image | lpr

Answer 1

You can use firefox with the Command Line Print extension.

firefox -print http://www.example.com/index.html
firefox -print http://www.example.com/index.html -printmode pdf -printfile ../foo.pdf
firefox -print http://www.example.com/index.html -printmode PNG
firefox -print http://www.example.com/index.html -printdelay 10

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Answer 2

You could try using wkhtmltopdf, which uses the webkit engine to render an HTML page into a PDF file. Then you can print the PDF.

Answer 3

http://htmldoc.org/ may help.

Answer 4

You can use links with the dump switch:

links www.google.com -dump > formatedOutput.txt

And the same with lynx:

lynx www.google.com -dump > formatedOutput.txt

And yet again, the same with w3m:

w3m www.google.com -dump > formatedOutput.txt