wp_post_insert HTML in post_content

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I am trying to use wp_post_insert function to create posts/pages from my HTML pages.

So far I’ve got:

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$html = file_get_contents($dir . $data['url']);

$post = array(
        'post_content'  => $html,
        'post_name'     => sanitize_title_with_dashes($data['title']), 
        'post_title'    => $data['title'],
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_type'     => $data['type'], 
);  
$post_id = wp_insert_post($post);

However this does not seems to be working as post_content is always empty. I’ve tried different sanitation functions, but none of them are working.

HTML code is read into $html variable, but I guess the problem comes because its multiple lines.

Can you give me a hint?

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  1. Ive found that the files that I am reading were encoded with UCS2 encoding – file_get_contents returns special characters which looks good in browser (browser has its own character encoding), but not good for WP.

    The solution was to reencode HTML files into UTF-8 ones.

  2. Trick the function into thinking that the input has already been sanitized with the filter attribute: 

    $post = array(
        'post_content'  => $html,
        'post_name'     => sanitize_title_with_dashes($data['title']), 
        'post_title'    => $data['title'],
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
        'post_type'     => $data['type'], 
        'filter' => true 
);