cheerio-to-text
Advanced tools
Explained by an example:
import fs from "fs"
import cheerio from "cheerio"
import { render } from "cheerio-to-text"
const html = fs.readFileSync("page.html", "utf-8")
console.log(html)
//
// <!doctype html>
// <body>
// <div id="main">
// <p>Para<strong>graph</strong>.</p>
// <ul><li>Foo</li><li>Bar</li></ul><h3>Heading</h3>
// </div>
// </body>
//
const $ = cheerio.load(html)
console.log($("div#main").text())
//
// Paragraph.
// FooBarHeading
//
console.log(render($("div#main")))
//
// Paragraph.
// Foo
// Bar
// Heading
//
Much of the origin of this that GitHub Docs scrapes
every page with got and cheerio and then needs to convert that into an
appropriate string of plain text that it can use for searching
with Elasticsearch. Using myCheerioObject.text() isn't good enough
because it lumps together HTML blocking tags that have no whitespace
between the > and the next <.
MIT
Run npm run build:watch in one terminal the look at
example.mjs (which you run with node example.mjs)
jest
Or
jest --watch -t "some test text"
FAQs
Turn a Cheerio object into plain text
The npm package cheerio-to-text receives a total of 1,657 weekly downloads. As such, cheerio-to-text popularity was classified as popular.
We found that cheerio-to-text demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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