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From: Ted Wiles <linode.valhalla@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Looking for a way to "scrape" a webpage to a org-mode note
 (text+images)
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:09:09 -0700
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Itai kloog <ikloog@gmail.com> writes:

> Hya all
>
> im looking for a way/wondering if anyone has a homebrew script he
> uses, to "scrape" a webpage into org. That is mark the text+images you
> want (or just do it for the whole page), and then paste that into
> org-mode as a note, with the images as inline images (stored locally
> somewhere as attachments are perhaps?)
>
> any one know of a way to do that?
>
> best=C2=A0
>
> Z.

I have used pandoc for tasks like this in the past:

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html

this accepts an HTML argument and can output org files.

-TW