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html2text
Converts HTML into text of the markdown-flavored variety
Introduction
This is a fork of the original jaytaylor.com/html2text project, which had become outdated. This fork maintains the same functionality while ensuring compatibility with modern Go versions and dependencies.
Ensure your emails are readable by all!
Turns HTML into raw text, useful for sending fancy HTML emails with an equivalently nicely formatted TXT document as a fallback (e.g. for people who don't allow HTML emails or have other display issues).
html2text is a simple golang package for rendering HTML into plaintext.
There are still lots of improvements to be had, but FWIW this has worked fine for my [basic] HTML-2-text needs.
It requires Go 1.23.0 or newer.
Download the package
go get github.com/prodigeris/html2text
Example usage
Library
package main
import (
"fmt"
"github.com/prodigeris/html2text"
)
func main() {
inputHTML := `
<html>
<head>
<title>My Mega Service</title>
<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"main.css\">
<style type=\"text/css\">body { color: #fff; }</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="logo">
<a href="http://jaytaylor.com/"><img src="/logo-image.jpg" alt="Mega Service"/></a>
</div>
<h1>Welcome to your new account on my service!</h1>
<p>
Here is some more information:
<ul>
<li>Link 1: <a href="https://example.com">Example.com</a></li>
<li>Link 2: <a href="https://example2.com">Example2.com</a></li>
<li>Something else</li>
</ul>
</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Header 1</th><th>Header 2</th></tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr><td>Footer 1</td><td>Footer 2</td></tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Row 1 Col 1</td><td>Row 1 Col 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Col 1</td><td>Row 2 Col 2</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>`
text, err := html2text.FromString(inputHTML, html2text.Options{PrettyTables: true})
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(text)
}
Output:
Mega Service ( http://jaytaylor.com/ )
******************************************
Welcome to your new account on my service!
******************************************
Here is some more information:
* Link 1: Example.com ( https://example.com )
* Link 2: Example2.com ( https://example2.com )
* Something else
+-------------+-------------+
| HEADER 1 | HEADER 2 |
+-------------+-------------+
| Row 1 Col 1 | Row 1 Col 2 |
| Row 2 Col 1 | Row 2 Col 2 |
+-------------+-------------+
| FOOTER 1 | FOOTER 2 |
+-------------+-------------+
Command line
echo '<div>hi</div>' | html2text
Unit-tests
Running the unit-tests is straightforward and standard:
go test
License
Permissive MIT license.
Contact
You are more than welcome to open issues and send pull requests if you find a bug or want a new feature.
If you appreciate this library please feel free to drop me a line and tell me! It's always nice to hear from people who have benefitted from my work.
Email: iam at arn dot as
Twitter: @prodigers
Alternatives
https://github.com/jaytaylor/html2text - Original https://github.com/k3a/html2text - Lightweight
Documentation
¶
Overview ¶
Example ¶
inputHTML := `
<html>
<head>
<title>My Mega Service</title>
<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"main.css\">
<style type=\"text/css\">body { color: #fff; }</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="logo">
<a href="http://jaytaylor.com/"><img src="/logo-image.jpg" alt="Mega Service"/></a>
</div>
<h1>Welcome to your new account on my service!</h1>
<p>
Here is some more information:
<ul>
<li>Link 1: <a href="https://example.com">Example.com</a></li>
<li>Link 2: <a href="https://example2.com">Example2.com</a></li>
<li>Something else</li>
</ul>
</p>
<table>
<thead>
<tr><th>Header 1</th><th>Header 2</th></tr>
</thead>
<tfoot>
<tr><td>Footer 1</td><td>Footer 2</td></tr>
</tfoot>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Row 1 Col 1</td><td>Row 1 Col 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Row 2 Col 1</td><td>Row 2 Col 2</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>`
text, err := FromString(inputHTML, Options{PrettyTables: true})
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Println(text)
Output: Mega Service ( http://jaytaylor.com/ ) ****************************************** Welcome to your new account on my service! ****************************************** Here is some more information: * Link 1: Example.com ( https://example.com ) * Link 2: Example2.com ( https://example2.com ) * Something else +-------------+-------------+ | HEADER 1 | HEADER 2 | +-------------+-------------+ | Row 1 Col 1 | Row 1 Col 2 | | Row 2 Col 1 | Row 2 Col 2 | +-------------+-------------+ | FOOTER 1 | FOOTER 2 | +-------------+-------------+
Index ¶
Examples ¶
Constants ¶
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Variables ¶
This section is empty.
Functions ¶
func FromHTMLNode ¶
FromHTMLNode renders text output from a pre-parsed HTML document.
func FromReader ¶
FromReader renders text output after parsing HTML for the specified io.Reader.
Types ¶
type Options ¶
type Options struct {
PrettyTables bool // Turns on pretty ASCII rendering for table elements.
PrettyTablesOptions *PrettyTablesOptions // Configures pretty ASCII rendering for table elements.
OmitLinks bool // Turns on omitting links
TextOnly bool // Returns only plain text
}
Options provide toggles and overrides to control specific rendering behaviors.
type PrettyTablesOptions ¶
type PrettyTablesOptions struct {
AutoFormatHeader bool
AutoWrapText bool
ReflowDuringAutoWrap bool
ColWidth int
ColumnSeparator string
RowSeparator string
CenterSeparator string
HeaderAlignment tw.Align
Alignment tw.Align
ColumnAlignment []tw.Align
NewLine string
HeaderLine bool
RowLine bool
AutoMergeCells bool
Borders tw.Border
}
PrettyTablesOptions overrides tablewriter behaviors
func NewPrettyTablesOptions ¶
func NewPrettyTablesOptions() *PrettyTablesOptions
NewPrettyTablesOptions creates PrettyTablesOptions with default settings
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