@contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer

What is @contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer?

@contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer is an npm package that provides functionality to convert Contentful's rich text documents into plain text. This can be useful for scenarios where you need to extract and manipulate text content without any formatting or HTML tags.

What are @contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer's main functionalities?

Convert Rich Text to Plain Text

This feature allows you to convert a Contentful rich text document into a plain text string. The code sample demonstrates how to use the `documentToPlainTextString` function to achieve this.

const { documentToPlainTextString } = require('@contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer');
const richTextDocument = {
  nodeType: 'document',
  content: [
    {
      nodeType: 'paragraph',
      content: [
        {
          nodeType: 'text',
          value: 'Hello, world!',
          marks: [],
          data: {}
        }
      ],
      data: {}
    }
  ],
  data: {}
};
const plainText = documentToPlainTextString(richTextDocument);
console.log(plainText); // Output: 'Hello, world!'

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README

rich-text-plain-text-renderer

Plain text renderer for the Rich Text document.

Installation

Using npm:

npm install @contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer

Using yarn:

yarn add @contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer

Usage

import { documentToPlainTextString } from '@contentful/rich-text-plain-text-renderer';

const document = {
  nodeType: 'document',
  data: {},
  content: [
    {
      nodeType: 'paragraph',
      data: {},
      content: [
        {
          nodeType: 'text',
          value: 'Hello',
          marks: [{ type: 'bold' }],
          data: {}
        },
        {
          nodeType: 'text',
          value: ' world!',
          marks: [{ type: 'italic' }],
          data: {}
        },
      ],
    },
  ]
};

documentToPlainTextString(document); // -> Hello world!

Changelog

15.6.0 (2021-11-04)

Features

• add support to convert tables from md to rich text (#284) (213a29c)