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 ;)
go get jaytaylor.com/html2textpackage main
import (
"fmt""jaytaylor.com/html2text"
)
funcmain() {
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})
iferr!=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 |
+-------------+-------------+
echo '<div>hi</div>' | html2text
Running the unit-tests is straightforward and standard:
go testPermissive MIT license.
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: jay at (my github username).com
Twitter: @jtaylor
https://github.com/k3a/html2text - Lightweight