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A ruby gem that can convert HTML to formatted plain text.

= HTML To Plain Text

gem install html_to_plain_text

A simple gem that provide code to convert HTML into a plain text alternative. Line breaks from HTML block level elements will be maintained. Lists and tables will also maintain a little bit of formatting.

  • Line breaks will be approximated using the generally established default margins for HTML tags (i.e.

    tag generates two line breaks,

    generates one)
  • Lists items will be numbered or bulleted with an asterisk

  • tags will add line breaks
  • tags will add a string of hyphens to serve as a horizontal rule
  • elements will enclosed in "|" delimiters
  • tags will have the href URL appended to the text in parentheses
  • Formatting tags like or will be stripped
  • Formatting inside 
     or  elements will be honored</plaintext></pre></li>
<li>Code-like tags like <script> or <style> will be stripped</script></li>

<p>== Usage</p>
<pre><code>require 'html_to_plain_text'
html = "&lt;h1&gt;Hello&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p&gt;world!&lt;/p&gt;"
HtmlToPlainText.plain_text(html)
=&gt; "Hello\n\nworld!"
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