Module: HtmlToPlainText

Included in:
Premailer
Defined in:
lib/premailer/html_to_plain_text.rb

Overview

Support functions for Premailer

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#convert_to_text(html, line_length = 65, from_charset = 'UTF-8') ⇒ Object

Returns the text in UTF-8 format with all HTML tags removed

HTML content can be omitted from the output by surrounding it in the following comments:

<!– start text/html –> <!– end text/html –>

TODO: add support for DL, OL TODO: this is not safe and needs a real html parser to work



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# File 'lib/premailer/html_to_plain_text.rb', line 16

def convert_to_text(html, line_length = 65, from_charset = 'UTF-8')
  txt = html

  # strip text ignored html. Useful for removing
  # headers and footers that aren't needed in the
  # text version
  txt.gsub!(/<!-- start text\/html -->.*?<!-- end text\/html -->/m, '')

  # replace images with their alt attributes
  # for img tags with "" for attribute quotes
  # with or without closing tag
  # eg. the following formats:
  # <img alt="" />
  # <img alt="">
  txt.gsub!(/<img[^>]+?alt="([^"]*)"[^>]*>/i, '\1')

  # for img tags with '' for attribute quotes
  # with or without closing tag
  # eg. the following formats:
  # <img alt='' />
  # <img alt=''>
  txt.gsub!(/<img[^>]+?alt='([^']*)'[^>]*>/i, '\1')

  # remove script tags and content
  txt.gsub!(/<script.*?\/script>/m, '')

  # links
  txt.gsub!(/<a\s+([^>]+)>(.*?)<\/a>/im) do |s|
    text = $2.strip

    match = /href=(['"])(?:mailto:)?(.+?)\1/.match(s)
    if match
      href = match[2]
    end

    if text.empty?
      ''
    elsif href.nil? || text.strip.downcase == href.strip.downcase
      text.strip
    else
      text.strip + ' ( ' + href.strip + ' )'
    end
  end

  # handle headings (H1-H6)
  txt.gsub!(/(<\/h[1-6]>)/i, "\n\\1") # move closing tags to new lines
  txt.gsub!(/[\s]*<h([1-6]+)[^>]*>[\s]*(.*)[\s]*<\/h[1-6]+>/i) do |s|
    hlevel = $1.to_i

    htext = $2
    htext.gsub!(/<br[\s]*\/?>/i, "\n") # handle <br>s
    htext.gsub!(/<\/?[^>]*>/i, '') # strip tags

    # determine maximum line length
    hlength = 0
    htext.each_line { |l| llength = l.strip.length; hlength = llength if llength > hlength }
    hlength = line_length if hlength > line_length

    case hlevel
    when 1   # H1, asterisks above and below
      htext = ('*' * hlength) + "\n" + htext + "\n" + ('*' * hlength)
    when 2   # H1, dashes above and below
      htext = ('-' * hlength) + "\n" + htext + "\n" + ('-' * hlength)
    else     # H3-H6, dashes below
      htext = htext + "\n" + ('-' * hlength)
    end

    "\n\n" + htext + "\n\n"
  end

  # wrap spans
  txt.gsub!(/(<\/span>)[\s]+(<span)/mi, '\1 \2')

  # lists -- TODO: should handle ordered lists
  txt.gsub!(/[\s]*(<li[^>]*>)[\s]*/i, '* ')
  # list not followed by a newline
  txt.gsub!(/<\/li>[\s]*(?![\n])/i, "\n")

  # paragraphs and line breaks
  txt.gsub!(/<\/p>/i, "\n\n")
  txt.gsub!(/<br[\/ ]*>/i, "\n")

  # strip remaining tags
  txt.gsub!(/<\/?[^>]*>/, '')

  # decode HTML entities
  he = HTMLEntities.new
  txt = he.decode(txt)

  # word wrap
  txt = word_wrap(txt, line_length)

  # remove linefeeds (\r\n and \r -> \n)
  txt.gsub!(/\r\n?/, "\n")

  # strip extra spaces
  txt.gsub!(/[ \t]*\302\240+[ \t]*/, " ") # non-breaking spaces -> spaces
  txt.gsub!(/\n[ \t]+/, "\n") # space at start of lines
  txt.gsub!(/[ \t]+\n/, "\n") # space at end of lines

  # no more than two consecutive newlines
  txt.gsub!(/[\n]{3,}/, "\n\n")

  # the word messes up the parens
  txt.gsub!(/\(([ \n])(http[^)]+)([\n ])\)/) do |s|
    ($1 == "\n" ? $1 : '' ) + '( ' + $2 + ' )' + ($3 == "\n" ? $1 : '' )
  end

  txt.strip
end

#word_wrap(txt, line_length) ⇒ Object

Taken from Rails’ word_wrap helper (api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-word_wrap)



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# File 'lib/premailer/html_to_plain_text.rb', line 128

def word_wrap(txt, line_length)
  txt.split("\n").collect do |line|
    line.length > line_length ? line.gsub(/(.{1,#{line_length}})(\s+|$)/, "\\1\n").strip : line
  end * "\n"
end