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>Titl e</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]

Re: text representation of HTML

Ksenia Marasanova wrote:

Hi,
>
I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Titl e</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]

Re: text representation of HTML

Hi,

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

Regards,

Laurent

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

Ksenia Marasanova wrote:
>

>Hi,
>>
>I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
>representati on 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

[garabik-news-2005-05@kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk]

Re: text representation of HTML

Ksenia Marasanova <ksenia.marasan ova@gmail.comwr ote:

Hi,
>
I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Titl e</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]

Re: text representation of HTML

Ksenia Marasanova wrote:

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:

>>import htmllib, formatter, StringIO
>>def cleanup(s):

out = StringIO.String IO()
p = htmllib.HTMLPar ser(
formatter.Abstr actFormatter(fo rmatter.DumbWri ter(out)))
p.feed(s)
p.close()
if p.anchorlist:
print >>out
for idx,anchor in enumerate(p.anc horlist):
print >>out, "\n[%d]: %s" % (idx+1,anchor)
return out.getvalue()

>>print cleanup('''<div ><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br

/>test</p></div>''')

Title

This is a
test

>>print cleanup('''<div ><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test with <a

href="http://python.org">a link</ato the Python homepage</p></div>''')

Title

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

[1]: http://python.org

[Tim Williams]

Re: text representation of HTML

On 20 Jul 2006 15:12:27 GMT, Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@i nvalid.invalidw rote:

Ksenia Marasanova wrote:

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

>
Use htmllib:
>

>import htmllib, formatter, StringIO
>def cleanup(s):

out = StringIO.String IO()
p = htmllib.HTMLPar ser(
formatter.Abstr actFormatter(fo rmatter.DumbWri ter(out)))
p.feed(s)
p.close()
if p.anchorlist:
print >>out
for idx,anchor in enumerate(p.anc horlist):
print >>out, "\n[%d]: %s" % (idx+1,anchor)
return out.getvalue()
>

>print cleanup('''<div ><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br

/>test</p></div>''')
>
Title
>
This is a
test

>print cleanup('''<div ><h1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br />test with <a

href="http://python.org">a link</ato 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/

>>import html2text
>>print html2text.html2 text('''<div><h 1>Title</h1><p>This is a <br

/>test with <a href="http://python.org">a link</ato 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]

Re: text representation of HTML

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.

On 7/19/06, Laurent Rahuel <lrahuel.notgoo d@voila.frwrote :

Hi,
>
I guess stripogram would be more pythonic :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...?group_id=1083
>
Regards,
>
Laurent
>
Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
>

Ksenia Marasanova wrote:

Hi,
>
I am looking for a library that will give me very simple text
representation of HTML.
For example
<div><h1>Titl e</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

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