(VBScript) Unpack HTML Email to Files

Unpacks an HTML email into an HTML file and related files (images and style sheets). The links within the HTML are updated to point to the files unpacked and saved to disk.

Chilkat ActiveX Downloads ActiveX for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

' For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject("Chilkat_9_5_0.Email")
set email = CreateObject("Chilkat.Email")

success = email.LoadEml("qa_data/eml/happyHour.eml")
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Is this an HTML email?
If (email.HasHtmlBody() = 1) Then

    ' Unpack the HTML to files.  The image and css URLs
    ' in the HTML are modified to point to the files extracted to disk.
    unpackDir = "qa_output/emails"
    partsSubdir = "images"
    htmlFilename = "happyHour.html"
    success = email.UnpackHtml(unpackDir,htmlFilename,partsSubdir)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(email.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    End If

    outFile.WriteLine("Success.")
End If


outFile.Close