`Index </index.txt>`_

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``cssutils`` scripts
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:version: $Id: scripts.txt 1390 2008-07-23 21:01:37Z cthedot $

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The provided scripts are available as a standalone script which is installed in the default PYTHONHOME/scripts directory. Additionally an API for the functionality of the scripts is provided for use in programs.

CSSParse
========
Script version of ``cssutils.parseString()`` and ``cssutils.parseFile()``.

Usage: cssparse-script.py [options] filename1.css [filename2.css ...]
        [>filename_combined.css] [2>parserinfo.log]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -e ENCODING, --encoding=ENCODING
                        encoding of the file
  -d, --debug           activate debugging output
  -m, --minify          minify parsed CSS
  -s, --string          parse given string


CSSCapture
==========
``CSSCapture`` downloads all referenced CSS stylesheets of a given URL and saves them to a given target directory.

programmatic use
----------------
example::

    >>> url = 'http://cthedot.de'
    >>> from cssutils.script import CSSCapture
    >>> capturer = CSSCapture(ua=None, log=None, defaultloglevel=logging.INFO)
    >>> stylesheetlist = capturer.capture(url)
    >>> print stylesheetlist
    [cssutils.css.CSSStyleSheet(href=u'http://cthedot.de/css/default.css', media=None, title=None),
     cssutils.css.CSSStyleSheet(href=u'http://cthedot.de/static/alternate1.css', media=None, title=u'red'),
     cssutils.css.CSSStyleSheet(href=u'http://cthedot.de/static/alternate2.css', media=None, title=u'blue')]

script use
----------
Usage: csscapture-script.py [options] URL

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -d, --debug           show debug messages during capturing
  -m, --minified        saves minified version of captured files
  -n, --notsave         if given files are NOT saved, only log is written
  -s SAVETO, --saveto=SAVETO
                        saving retrieved files to "saveto", defaults to "_CSSCapture_SAVED"
  -u UA, --useragent=UA
                        useragent to use for request of URL, default is urllib2s default


CSSCombine
==========
``csscombine`` may be used to combine several sheets loaded from a main sheet via @import rules. No nested @imports are resolved yet.

The resulting combined sheet (optionally minified) is send to stdout, info and error messages are handled by the normal cssutils log.

``csscombine`` may also be used to change the encoding of the stylesheet if a target encoding is given.

programmatic use
----------------
example::

    >>> proxypath = 'sheets/csscombine-proxy.css'
    >>> from cssutils.script import csscombine
    >>> print csscombine(proxypath, sourceencoding=None, targetencoding='utf-8', minify=True)
    Processing @import u'sheets\\csscombine-1.css'
    Processing @import u'sheets\\csscombine-2.css'
    Nested @imports are not combined: @import "1.css";
    Setting target encoding 'utf-8'
    '@charset "utf-8";@import"1.css";@namespace s2"uri";s2|sheet-1{top:1px}s2|sheet-2{top:2px}proxy{top:3px}'

script use
----------
Usage: csscombine-script.py [options] path

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -s SOURCEENCODING, --sourceencoding=SOURCEENCODING
                        encoding of input, defaulting to "css". If given
                        overwrites other encoding information like @charset
                        declarations
  -t TARGETENCODING, --targetencoding=TARGETENCODING
                        encoding of output, defaulting to "UTF-8"
  -m, --minify          saves minified version of combined files, defaults to
                        False
