obscure-links

Obscure mailto: and tel: links in HTML by replacing characters with numeric HTML entities.

Installation

Directly from github:

pip install --upgrade https://github.com/dbort/obscure-links/tarball/main

Or from a local clone:

pip install .

Usage

Run as a filter (stdin -> stdout):

cat input.html | obscure-links > output.html

Or with files:

obscure-links -i input.html -o output.html

Notes

• Only <a> tags whose href starts with mailto: or tel: (case-insensitive) are modified.
• For anchor contents, only text nodes are converted; nested HTML elements are preserved.

Running tests

This project uses pytest.

Install test dependencies:

# Via optional extras
pip install '.[test]'

or

# Via requirements file
pip install -r requirements-test.txt

Run the tests:

pytest

License

MIT License — see LICENSE.