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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# encoding: utf-8
# Copyright (C) 2020 Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli <GNUtoo@cyberdimension.org>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

# How to use:
# - Download the release notes from Wordpress. If it's not published yet you
#   can still click on preview and save-as the page
# - Point this program to the resulting html file, it will generate a text
#   version of it.

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from html2text import config, HTML2Text

try:
    # This has been removed in more recent
    # versions of python-html2text. See commit
    # b361467894fb277563b4547ec9d4df49f5e0c6e3
    # (b361467 Remove support for Python ≤ 3.4)
    # in https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text.git
    from html2text.utils import wrapwrite
except:
    pass

import sys

def usage(progname):
    print("{} path/to/file.html".format(progname))
    sys.exit(1)

def convert(html_file_path):
    with open(html_file_path) as html_file:
        try:
            soup = BeautifulSoup(html_file, features="html5lib").article
        except:
            try:
                # For some reason the lxml parser isn't found with
                # python-beautifulsoup4 4.9.3-3.0 on Parabola. It's
                # probably better to use an html5 parser anyway as the
                # Replicant blog (now?) uses the html doctype and the
                # theme seems to include an html5.js file for the IE 9
                # browser.
                soup = BeautifulSoup(html_file, features="lxml").article
            except:
                print("Cannot find html5lib or lxml parsers")
                sys.exit(1)

    # Format the output to be compatible with mail conventions but make sure
    # that the links are not split between two lines
    config.INLINE_LINKS = False
    config.PROTECT_LINKS = True
    config.WRAP_LIST_ITEMS = True
    config.BODY_WIDTH = 70

    parser = HTML2Text()
    text = parser.handle(soup.decode())

    return text

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        usage(sys.argv[0])

    html_file_path = sys.argv[1]

    text = convert(html_file_path)

    try:
        wrapwrite(text)
    except:
        sys.stdout.write(text)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()