Render a Screenplay to an HTML File

Turn a parsed script into a standalone HTML file you can open in a browser or send to someone.

Use render_page(), or the to_html() shortcut on the document. It returns a full HTML page with the screenplay CSS embedded, so the file needs no external style sheet:

from fountain import FountainParser
from fountain.renderer import HTMLRenderer

document = FountainParser().parse_file("screenplay.fountain")

html = HTMLRenderer().render_page(document)

with open("screenplay.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(html)

The document exposes the same thing directly, if you do not need the renderer for anything else:

with open("screenplay.html", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(document.to_html())

Open screenplay.html in a browser to view or print it.

Rendering Reference describes the three HTMLRenderer modes: render_page for a standalone page, render for a fragment, and get_css for the CSS on its own. To embed the screenplay in an existing page instead of writing a standalone file, see Embed a Screenplay in a Web Page.