html2text is a very simple gem that uses DOM methods to convert HTML into a format similar to what would be
rendered by a browser - perfect for places where you need a quick text representation. For example:
<html> <title>Ignored Title</title> <body> <h1>Hello, World!</h1> <p>This is some e-mail content. Even though it has whitespace and newlines, the e-mail converter will handle it correctly. <p>Even mismatched tags.</p> <div>A div</div> <div>Another div</div> <div>A div<div>within a div</div></div> <a href="http://foo.com">A link</a> </body> </html>
Will be converted into:
Hello, World!
This is some e-mail content. Even though it has whitespace and newlines, the e-mail converter will handle it correctly.
Even mismatched tags.
A div
Another div
A div
within a div
[A link](http://foo.com)
See the original blog post or the related StackOverflow answer.
Add the gem into your Gemfile and run bundle install:
gem 'html2text'
Then you can:
require 'html2text' text = Html2Text.convert(html)
See all of the test cases defined in spec/examples/. These can be run with bundle && rspec.
html2text is licensed under MIT.
- html2text, the original PHP implementation.
- actionmailer-html2text, automatically generate text parts for HTML emails sent with ActionMailer.