text representation of HTML

[Ksenia Marasanova]

Hi,

I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test</p></div>

will be transformed to:

Title

This is a
test


i want to send plain text alternative of html email, and would prefer
to do it automatically from HTML source.
Any hints?

Thanks!
Ksenia.

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test</p></div>

will be transformed to:

Title

This is a
test


i want to send plain text alternative of html email, and would prefer
to do it automatically from HTML source.
Any hints?

html2text is a commandline tool. You can invoke it from python using
subprocess.

Diez

 

[Laurent Rahuel]

Hi,

I guess stripogram would be more pythonic :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1083

Regards,

Laurent

 

[garabik-news-2005-05]

Hi,

I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test</p></div>

will be transformed to:

Title

This is a
test


i want to send plain text alternative of html email, and would prefer
to do it automatically from HTML source.

something like this:

import re
text = '<div><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test</p></div>'
text = re.sub(r'[\n\ \t]+', ' ', text)
text = re.sub(r'(?i)(\<p\>|\<br\>|\<h[1-6]\>)', '\n', text)
result = re.sub('<.+?>', '', text)
print result

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[Duncan Booth]

I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test</p></div>

will be transformed to:

Title

This is a
test


i want to send plain text alternative of html email, and would prefer
to do it automatically from HTML source.
Any hints?

Use htmllib:
out = StringIO.StringIO()
p = htmllib.HTMLParser(
formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(out)))
p.feed(s)
p.close()
if p.anchorlist:
print >>out
for idx,anchor in enumerate(p.anchorlist):
print >>out, "\n[%d]: %s" % (idx+1,anchor)
return out.getvalue()
/>test</p></div>''')

Title

This is a
testhref="http://python.org">a link</a> to the Python homepage</p></div>''')

Title

This is a
test with a link[1] to the Python homepage

[1]: http://python.org

 

[Tim Williams]

i want to send plain text alternative of html email, and would prefer
to do it automatically from HTML source.
Any hints?

Use htmllib:
out = StringIO.StringIO()
p = htmllib.HTMLParser(
formatter.AbstractFormatter(formatter.DumbWriter(out)))
p.feed(s)
p.close()
if p.anchorlist:
print >>out
for idx,anchor in enumerate(p.anchorlist):
print >>out, "\n[%d]: %s" % (idx+1,anchor)
return out.getvalue()
/>test</p></div>''')

Title

This is a
testhref="http://python.org">a link</a> to the Python homepage</p></div>''')

Title

This is a
test with a link[1] to the Python homepage

[1]: http://python.org

cleanup() doesn't handle script and styles too well. html2text will
do a much better job of these and give a more structured output
(compatible with Markdown)

http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/
/>test with <a href="http://python.org">a link</a> to the Python
homepage</p></div>''')

# Title

This is a
test with [a link][1] to the Python homepage

[1]: http://python.org


HTH

 

[Ksenia Marasanova]

Sorry for the late reply... better too late than never
Thanks to all for the tips. Stripogram is the winner, since it is the
most configurable and accept line-length parameter, which is handy for
email...

Ksenia.