[development] Mass import of HTML?

[Seth Cohn]

Worth asking here, as I've found no good solutions yet, and I'm sure
others have faced similar issues and solved it in various ways.

Despite CS shipping with node_import, and a few people posting on the
Drupal forums about various times they've coded up different scripts
to import old html sites, it doesn't look like there is a good and
mature way to import an existing HTML based site, except for the old
cut and paste approach.

Ideally, give either a set of html files or an set of URLs, a script
should be able to import each pages html, and make a node.  Stripping
out things like headers and footers would be good.

Problems:

node_import: requires CSV compilation of pages.  How do you convert
existing pages into a CSV?   Script?

import_export (despite 4.5 label on Drupal, was made 4.6 friendly):
same problem... also does XML...

import_html: http://coders.co.nz/drupal_development/?q=taxonomy/term/4
Specific to the job, but Dan hasn't released the code fully yet... in
email, he mentioned it was missing bits

wgHTML: an ugly hack that wraps html Drupalishly, but not a real import

Other scripts: haven't found a good example yet.  Got one?

Thanks for any pointers... and I'll report back and post a nice howto
for use in the handbook.

obDevel: I just noticed a bug I filed a year ago finally closed... br
tags are no longer standard on labels.  http://drupal.org/node/15609  
Yeah!  Only took a whole year to get closed.