Autmoted HTML Printing?

[thenewa2x]

Is there a way to batch print HTML pages from an online source? I tried searching Google and Source Forge and nothing relevant came up. I do not want a GUI, just something simple such as a command line program.

Example syntax:
[tt]printhtml -d <printername> <list of urls to print>[/tt]

It would also be nice to be able to specify which printer to print to.

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[QatQat]

I don't understand exactly the batch printing of HTML but if I hear you correctly you wanto to output pages' HTML code to your printer.


Have you tried to pipe curl output through your printer?

curl [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.page.com[/URL] | lpr -Pyourprintername

You can then create a script that automates whatever you are trying to achieve.



QatQat


Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

 

[jstreich]

You could either curl or wget the pages and then print them using html2text or the like. I do this for printing my baily "newspaper" grabbing local weather and slashdot stories.

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http://game-master.us/phpx-3.4.0/

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[thenewa2x]

My intent was to print an HTML page (no source code) to the printer like you would in Firefox but without a GUI in Linux. I realized that in my project I would come across authentication issues this way.

Thanks for trying to help anyway.

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[lgarner]

Search for "html2ps". It should do what you want, and might handle graphics, though I can't speak from experience.

 

[jstreich]

wget handles post and get, just make sure your permissions on the scripts are set properly so other users can't see user and passwords that are past.

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http://game-master.us/phpx-3.4.0/

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[thenewa2x]

Yeah, the thing was that the authentication was to be handled by the user and it could very from site to site. I considered having the user print without knowing (somehow with Firefox extension) and store it in a location that would be later uploaded to a server for printing. The next day they can come to the printer and pickup what was printing over night.

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