# README
html2text
Forked from https://github.com/jaytaylor/html2text.
Converts HTML into text of the markdown-flavored variety
Introduction
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.x or newer ;)
Download the package
go get jaytaylor.com/html2text
Example usage
package main
import (
"fmt"
"jaytaylor.com/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 |
+-------------+-------------+
Unit-tests
Running the unit-tests is straightforward and standard:
go test
# Functions
FromHTMLNode renders text output from a pre-parsed HTML document.
FromReader renders text output after parsing HTML for the specified io.Reader.
FromString parses HTML from the input string, then renders the text form.
NewPrettyTablesOptions creates PrettyTablesOptions with default settings.
# Structs
Options provide toggles and overrides to control specific rendering behaviors.
PrettyTablesOptions overrides tablewriter behaviors.