Is there a good way to remove HTML from a Java string? A simple regex like
replaceAll("\\<.*?>", "")
will work, but things like & wont be converted correctly and non-HTML between the two angle brackets will be removed (i.e. the .*? in the regex will disappear).
The accepted answer did not work for me for the test case I indicated: the result of "a < b or b > c" is "a b or b > c".
So, I used TagSoup instead. Here's a shot that worked for my test case (and a couple of others):
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
/**
* Take HTML and give back the text part while dropping the HTML tags.
*
* There is some risk that using TagSoup means we'll permute non-HTML text.
* However, it seems to work the best so far in test cases.
*
* @author dan
* @see <a href="http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/">TagSoup</a>
*/
public class Html2Text2 implements ContentHandler {
private StringBuffer sb;
public Html2Text2() {
}
public void parse(String str) throws IOException, SAXException {
XMLReader reader = new Parser();
reader.setContentHandler(this);
sb = new StringBuffer();
reader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(str)));
}
public String getText() {
return sb.toString();
}
@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
for (int idx = 0; idx < length; idx++) {
sb.append(ch[idx+start]);
}
}
@Override
public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
sb.append(ch);
}
// The methods below do not contribute to the text
@Override
public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void processingInstruction(String target, String data)
throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {
}
@Override
public void skippedEntity(String name) throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void startPrefixMapping(String prefix, String uri)
throws SAXException {
}
}
Remove HTML tags from string. Somewhere we need to parse some string which is received by some responses like Httpresponse from the server.
So we need to parse it.
Here I will show how to remove html tags from string.
// sample text with tags
string str = "<html><head>sdfkashf sdf</head><body>sdfasdf</body></html>";
// regex which match tags
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex rx = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<[^>]*>");
// replace all matches with empty strin
str = rx.Replace(str, "");
//now str contains string without html tags
Try this for javascript:
const strippedString = htmlString.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
console.log(strippedString);
It sounds like you want to go from HTML to plain text.
If that is the case look at www.htmlparser.org. Here is an example that strips all the tags out from the html file found at a URL.
It makes use of org.htmlparser.beans.StringBean.
static public String getUrlContentsAsText(String url) {
String content = "";
StringBean stringBean = new StringBean();
stringBean.setURL(url);
content = stringBean.getStrings();
return content;
}
Here is another way to do it:
public static String removeHTML(String input) {
int i = 0;
String[] str = input.split("");
String s = "";
boolean inTag = false;
for (i = input.indexOf("<"); i < input.indexOf(">"); i++) {
inTag = true;
}
if (!inTag) {
for (i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
s = s + str[i];
}
}
return s;
}
You can simply use the Android's default HTML filter
public String htmlToStringFilter(String textToFilter){
return Html.fromHtml(textToFilter).toString();
}
The above method will return the HTML filtered string for your input.
You might want to replace <br/> and </p> tags with newlines before stripping the HTML to prevent it becoming an illegible mess as Tim suggests.
The only way I can think of removing HTML tags but leaving non-HTML between angle brackets would be check against a list of HTML tags. Something along these lines...
replaceAll("\\<[\s]*tag[^>]*>","")
Then HTML-decode special characters such as &. The result should not be considered to be sanitized.
I know it is been a while since this question as been asked, but I found another solution, this is what worked for me:
Pattern REMOVE_TAGS = Pattern.compile("<.+?>");
Source source= new Source(htmlAsString);
Matcher m = REMOVE_TAGS.matcher(sourceStep.getTextExtractor().toString());
String clearedHtml= m.replaceAll("");
Here's a lightly more fleshed out update to try to handle some formatting for breaks and lists. I used Amaya's output as a guide.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Stack;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTML;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator;
public class HTML2Text extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
private static final Logger log = Logger
.getLogger(Logger.GLOBAL_LOGGER_NAME);
private StringBuffer stringBuffer;
private Stack<IndexType> indentStack;
public static class IndexType {
public String type;
public int counter; // used for ordered lists
public IndexType(String type) {
this.type = type;
counter = 0;
}
}
public HTML2Text() {
stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
indentStack = new Stack<IndexType>();
}
public static String convert(String html) {
HTML2Text parser = new HTML2Text();
Reader in = new StringReader(html);
try {
// the HTML to convert
parser.parse(in);
} catch (Exception e) {
log.severe(e.getMessage());
} finally {
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
// this should never happen
}
}
return parser.getText();
}
public void parse(Reader in) throws IOException {
ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
// the third parameter is TRUE to ignore charset directive
delegator.parse(in, this, Boolean.TRUE);
}
public void handleStartTag(HTML.Tag t, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos) {
log.info("StartTag:" + t.toString());
if (t.toString().equals("p")) {
if (stringBuffer.length() > 0
&& !stringBuffer.substring(stringBuffer.length() - 1)
.equals("\n")) {
newLine();
}
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ol")) {
indentStack.push(new IndexType("ol"));
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ul")) {
indentStack.push(new IndexType("ul"));
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("li")) {
IndexType parent = indentStack.peek();
if (parent.type.equals("ol")) {
String numberString = "" + (++parent.counter) + ".";
stringBuffer.append(numberString);
for (int i = 0; i < (4 - numberString.length()); i++) {
stringBuffer.append(" ");
}
} else {
stringBuffer.append("* ");
}
indentStack.push(new IndexType("li"));
} else if (t.toString().equals("dl")) {
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("dt")) {
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("dd")) {
indentStack.push(new IndexType("dd"));
newLine();
}
}
private void newLine() {
stringBuffer.append("\n");
for (int i = 0; i < indentStack.size(); i++) {
stringBuffer.append(" ");
}
}
public void handleEndTag(HTML.Tag t, int pos) {
log.info("EndTag:" + t.toString());
if (t.toString().equals("p")) {
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ol")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ul")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("li")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("dd")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
}
}
public void handleSimpleTag(HTML.Tag t, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos) {
log.info("SimpleTag:" + t.toString());
if (t.toString().equals("br")) {
newLine();
}
}
public void handleText(char[] text, int pos) {
log.info("Text:" + new String(text));
stringBuffer.append(text);
}
public String getText() {
return stringBuffer.toString();
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
String html = "<html><body><p>paragraph at start</p>hello<br />What is happening?<p>this is a<br />mutiline paragraph</p><ol> <li>This</li> <li>is</li> <li>an</li> <li>ordered</li> <li>list <p>with</p> <ul> <li>another</li> <li>list <dl> <dt>This</dt> <dt>is</dt> <dd>sdasd</dd> <dd>sdasda</dd> <dd>asda <p>aasdas</p> </dd> <dd>sdada</dd> <dt>fsdfsdfsd</dt> </dl> <dl> <dt>vbcvcvbcvb</dt> <dt>cvbcvbc</dt> <dd>vbcbcvbcvb</dd> <dt>cvbcv</dt> <dt></dt> </dl> <dl> <dt></dt> </dl></li> <li>cool</li> </ul> <p>stuff</p> </li> <li>cool</li></ol><p></p></body></html>";
System.out.println(convert(html));
}
}
Here is another way to do it:
public static String removeHTML(String input) {
int i = 0;
String[] str = input.split("");
String s = "";
boolean inTag = false;
for (i = input.indexOf("<"); i < input.indexOf(">"); i++) {
inTag = true;
}
if (!inTag) {
for (i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
s = s + str[i];
}
}
return s;
}
The accepted answer did not work for me for the test case I indicated: the result of "a < b or b > c" is "a b or b > c".
So, I used TagSoup instead. Here's a shot that worked for my test case (and a couple of others):
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.Locator;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
/**
* Take HTML and give back the text part while dropping the HTML tags.
*
* There is some risk that using TagSoup means we'll permute non-HTML text.
* However, it seems to work the best so far in test cases.
*
* @author dan
* @see <a href="http://home.ccil.org/~cowan/XML/tagsoup/">TagSoup</a>
*/
public class Html2Text2 implements ContentHandler {
private StringBuffer sb;
public Html2Text2() {
}
public void parse(String str) throws IOException, SAXException {
XMLReader reader = new Parser();
reader.setContentHandler(this);
sb = new StringBuffer();
reader.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(str)));
}
public String getText() {
return sb.toString();
}
@Override
public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
for (int idx = 0; idx < length; idx++) {
sb.append(ch[idx+start]);
}
}
@Override
public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length)
throws SAXException {
sb.append(ch);
}
// The methods below do not contribute to the text
@Override
public void endDocument() throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName)
throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void processingInstruction(String target, String data)
throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) {
}
@Override
public void skippedEntity(String name) throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void startDocument() throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName,
Attributes atts) throws SAXException {
}
@Override
public void startPrefixMapping(String prefix, String uri)
throws SAXException {
}
}
You might want to replace <br/> and </p> tags with newlines before stripping the HTML to prevent it becoming an illegible mess as Tim suggests.
The only way I can think of removing HTML tags but leaving non-HTML between angle brackets would be check against a list of HTML tags. Something along these lines...
replaceAll("\\<[\s]*tag[^>]*>","")
Then HTML-decode special characters such as &. The result should not be considered to be sanitized.
Another way is to use javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit to extract the text.
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.*;
public class Html2Text extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
StringBuffer s;
public Html2Text() {
}
public void parse(Reader in) throws IOException {
s = new StringBuffer();
ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
// the third parameter is TRUE to ignore charset directive
delegator.parse(in, this, Boolean.TRUE);
}
public void handleText(char[] text, int pos) {
s.append(text);
}
public String getText() {
return s.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// the HTML to convert
FileReader in = new FileReader("java-new.html");
Html2Text parser = new Html2Text();
parser.parse(in);
in.close();
System.out.println(parser.getText());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Here is one more variant of how to replace all(HTML Tags | HTML Entities | Empty Space in HTML content)
content.replaceAll("(<.*?>)|(&.*?;)|([ ]{2,})", ""); where content is a String.
On Android, try this:
String result = Html.fromHtml(html).toString();
To get formateed plain html text you can do that:
String BR_ESCAPED = "<br/>";
Element el=Jsoup.parse(html).select("body");
el.select("br").append(BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("p").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h1").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h2").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h3").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h4").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h5").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
String nodeValue=el.text();
nodeValue=nodeValue.replaceAll(BR_ESCAPED, "<br/>");
nodeValue=nodeValue.replaceAll("(\\s*<br[^>]*>){3,}", "<br/><br/>");
To get formateed plain text change <br/> by \n and change last line by:
nodeValue=nodeValue.replaceAll("(\\s*\n){3,}", "<br/><br/>");
You can simply use the Android's default HTML filter
public String htmlToStringFilter(String textToFilter){
return Html.fromHtml(textToFilter).toString();
}
The above method will return the HTML filtered string for your input.
you can simply make a method with multiple replaceAll() like
String RemoveTag(String html){
html = html.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","")
html = html.replaceAll(" ","");
html = html.replaceAll("&"."");
----------
----------
return html;
}
Use this link for most common replacements you need: http://tunes.org/wiki/html_20special_20characters_20and_20symbols.html
It is simple but effective. I use this method first to remove the junk but not the very first line i.e replaceAll("\<.*?>",""), and later i use specific keywords to search for indexes and then use .substring(start, end) method to strip away unnecessary stuff. As this is more robust and you can pin point exactly what you need in the entire html page.
One could also use Apache Tika for this purpose. By default it preserves whitespaces from the stripped html, which may be desired in certain situations:
InputStream htmlInputStream = ..
HtmlParser htmlParser = new HtmlParser();
HtmlContentHandler htmlContentHandler = new HtmlContentHandler();
htmlParser.parse(htmlInputStream, htmlContentHandler, new Metadata())
System.out.println(htmlContentHandler.getBodyText().trim())
It sounds like you want to go from HTML to plain text.
If that is the case look at www.htmlparser.org. Here is an example that strips all the tags out from the html file found at a URL.
It makes use of org.htmlparser.beans.StringBean.
static public String getUrlContentsAsText(String url) {
String content = "";
StringBean stringBean = new StringBean();
stringBean.setURL(url);
content = stringBean.getStrings();
return content;
}
The accepted answer of doing simply Jsoup.parse(html).text() has 2 potential issues (with JSoup 1.7.3):
<script> into <script>If you use this to protect against XSS, this is a bit annoying. Here is my best shot at an improved solution, using both JSoup and Apache StringEscapeUtils:
// breaks multi-level of escaping, preventing &lt;script&gt; to be rendered as <script>
String replace = input.replace("&", "");
// decode any encoded html, preventing <script> to be rendered as <script>
String html = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(replace);
// remove all html tags, but maintain line breaks
String clean = Jsoup.clean(html, "", Whitelist.none(), new Document.OutputSettings().prettyPrint(false));
// decode html again to convert character entities back into text
return StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(clean);
Note that the last step is because I need to use the output as plain text. If you need only HTML output then you should be able to remove it.
And here is a bunch of test cases (input to output):
{"regular string", "regular string"},
{"<a href=\"link\">A link</a>", "A link"},
{"<script src=\"http://evil.url.com\"/>", ""},
{"<script>", ""},
{"&lt;script&gt;", "lt;scriptgt;"}, // best effort
{"\" ' > < \n \\ é å à ü and & preserved", "\" ' > < \n \\ é å à ü and & preserved"}
If you find a way to make it better, please let me know.
HTML Escaping is really hard to do right- I'd definitely suggest using library code to do this, as it's a lot more subtle than you'd think. Check out Apache's StringEscapeUtils for a pretty good library for handling this in Java.
I know it is been a while since this question as been asked, but I found another solution, this is what worked for me:
Pattern REMOVE_TAGS = Pattern.compile("<.+?>");
Source source= new Source(htmlAsString);
Matcher m = REMOVE_TAGS.matcher(sourceStep.getTextExtractor().toString());
String clearedHtml= m.replaceAll("");
Another way is to use javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit to extract the text.
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.*;
public class Html2Text extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
StringBuffer s;
public Html2Text() {
}
public void parse(Reader in) throws IOException {
s = new StringBuffer();
ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
// the third parameter is TRUE to ignore charset directive
delegator.parse(in, this, Boolean.TRUE);
}
public void handleText(char[] text, int pos) {
s.append(text);
}
public String getText() {
return s.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// the HTML to convert
FileReader in = new FileReader("java-new.html");
Html2Text parser = new Html2Text();
parser.parse(in);
in.close();
System.out.println(parser.getText());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
HTML Escaping is really hard to do right- I'd definitely suggest using library code to do this, as it's a lot more subtle than you'd think. Check out Apache's StringEscapeUtils for a pretty good library for handling this in Java.
If you're writing for Android you can do this...
android.text.HtmlCompat.fromHtml(instruction, HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY).toString()
I think that the simpliest way to filter the html tags is:
private static final Pattern REMOVE_TAGS = Pattern.compile("<.+?>");
public static String removeTags(String string) {
if (string == null || string.length() == 0) {
return string;
}
Matcher m = REMOVE_TAGS.matcher(string);
return m.replaceAll("");
}
You might want to replace <br/> and </p> tags with newlines before stripping the HTML to prevent it becoming an illegible mess as Tim suggests.
The only way I can think of removing HTML tags but leaving non-HTML between angle brackets would be check against a list of HTML tags. Something along these lines...
replaceAll("\\<[\s]*tag[^>]*>","")
Then HTML-decode special characters such as &. The result should not be considered to be sanitized.
One more way can be to use com.google.gdata.util.common.html.HtmlToText class like
MyWriter.toConsole(HtmlToText.htmlToPlainText(htmlResponse));
This is not bullet proof code though and when I run it on wikipedia entries I am getting style info also. However I believe for small/simple jobs this would be effective.
If the user enters <b>hey!</b>, do you want to display <b>hey!</b> or hey!? If the first, escape less-thans, and html-encode ampersands (and optionally quotes) and you're fine. A modification to your code to implement the second option would be:
replaceAll("\\<[^>]*>","")
but you will run into issues if the user enters something malformed, like <bhey!</b>.
You can also check out JTidy which will parse "dirty" html input, and should give you a way to remove the tags, keeping the text.
The problem with trying to strip html is that browsers have very lenient parsers, more lenient than any library you can find will, so even if you do your best to strip all tags (using the replace method above, a DOM library, or JTidy), you will still need to make sure to encode any remaining HTML special characters to keep your output safe.
You might want to replace <br/> and </p> tags with newlines before stripping the HTML to prevent it becoming an illegible mess as Tim suggests.
The only way I can think of removing HTML tags but leaving non-HTML between angle brackets would be check against a list of HTML tags. Something along these lines...
replaceAll("\\<[\s]*tag[^>]*>","")
Then HTML-decode special characters such as &. The result should not be considered to be sanitized.
Here is one more variant of how to replace all(HTML Tags | HTML Entities | Empty Space in HTML content)
content.replaceAll("(<.*?>)|(&.*?;)|([ ]{2,})", ""); where content is a String.
Sometimes the html string come from xml with such <. When using Jsoup we need parse it and then clean it.
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlstrl);
Whitelist wl = Whitelist.none();
String plain = Jsoup.clean(doc.text(), wl);
While only using Jsoup.parse(htmlstrl).text() can't remove tags.
My 5 cents:
String[] temp = yourString.split("&");
String tmp = "";
if (temp.length > 1) {
for (int i = 0; i < temp.length; i++) {
tmp += temp[i] + "&";
}
yourString = tmp.substring(0, tmp.length() - 1);
}
I know this is old, but I was just working on a project that required me to filter HTML and this worked fine:
noHTMLString.replaceAll("\\&.*?\\;", "");
instead of this:
html = html.replaceAll(" ","");
html = html.replaceAll("&"."");
classeString.replaceAll("\\<(/?[^\\>]+)\\>", "\\ ").replaceAll("\\s+", " ").trim()
Remove HTML tags from string. Somewhere we need to parse some string which is received by some responses like Httpresponse from the server.
So we need to parse it.
Here I will show how to remove html tags from string.
// sample text with tags
string str = "<html><head>sdfkashf sdf</head><body>sdfasdf</body></html>";
// regex which match tags
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex rx = new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex("<[^>]*>");
// replace all matches with empty strin
str = rx.Replace(str, "");
//now str contains string without html tags
Here's a lightly more fleshed out update to try to handle some formatting for breaks and lists. I used Amaya's output as a guide.
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringReader;
import java.util.Stack;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTML;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator;
public class HTML2Text extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
private static final Logger log = Logger
.getLogger(Logger.GLOBAL_LOGGER_NAME);
private StringBuffer stringBuffer;
private Stack<IndexType> indentStack;
public static class IndexType {
public String type;
public int counter; // used for ordered lists
public IndexType(String type) {
this.type = type;
counter = 0;
}
}
public HTML2Text() {
stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
indentStack = new Stack<IndexType>();
}
public static String convert(String html) {
HTML2Text parser = new HTML2Text();
Reader in = new StringReader(html);
try {
// the HTML to convert
parser.parse(in);
} catch (Exception e) {
log.severe(e.getMessage());
} finally {
try {
in.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
// this should never happen
}
}
return parser.getText();
}
public void parse(Reader in) throws IOException {
ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
// the third parameter is TRUE to ignore charset directive
delegator.parse(in, this, Boolean.TRUE);
}
public void handleStartTag(HTML.Tag t, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos) {
log.info("StartTag:" + t.toString());
if (t.toString().equals("p")) {
if (stringBuffer.length() > 0
&& !stringBuffer.substring(stringBuffer.length() - 1)
.equals("\n")) {
newLine();
}
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ol")) {
indentStack.push(new IndexType("ol"));
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ul")) {
indentStack.push(new IndexType("ul"));
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("li")) {
IndexType parent = indentStack.peek();
if (parent.type.equals("ol")) {
String numberString = "" + (++parent.counter) + ".";
stringBuffer.append(numberString);
for (int i = 0; i < (4 - numberString.length()); i++) {
stringBuffer.append(" ");
}
} else {
stringBuffer.append("* ");
}
indentStack.push(new IndexType("li"));
} else if (t.toString().equals("dl")) {
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("dt")) {
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("dd")) {
indentStack.push(new IndexType("dd"));
newLine();
}
}
private void newLine() {
stringBuffer.append("\n");
for (int i = 0; i < indentStack.size(); i++) {
stringBuffer.append(" ");
}
}
public void handleEndTag(HTML.Tag t, int pos) {
log.info("EndTag:" + t.toString());
if (t.toString().equals("p")) {
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ol")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("ul")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("li")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
newLine();
} else if (t.toString().equals("dd")) {
indentStack.pop();
;
}
}
public void handleSimpleTag(HTML.Tag t, MutableAttributeSet a, int pos) {
log.info("SimpleTag:" + t.toString());
if (t.toString().equals("br")) {
newLine();
}
}
public void handleText(char[] text, int pos) {
log.info("Text:" + new String(text));
stringBuffer.append(text);
}
public String getText() {
return stringBuffer.toString();
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
String html = "<html><body><p>paragraph at start</p>hello<br />What is happening?<p>this is a<br />mutiline paragraph</p><ol> <li>This</li> <li>is</li> <li>an</li> <li>ordered</li> <li>list <p>with</p> <ul> <li>another</li> <li>list <dl> <dt>This</dt> <dt>is</dt> <dd>sdasd</dd> <dd>sdasda</dd> <dd>asda <p>aasdas</p> </dd> <dd>sdada</dd> <dt>fsdfsdfsd</dt> </dl> <dl> <dt>vbcvcvbcvb</dt> <dt>cvbcvbc</dt> <dd>vbcbcvbcvb</dd> <dt>cvbcv</dt> <dt></dt> </dl> <dl> <dt></dt> </dl></li> <li>cool</li> </ul> <p>stuff</p> </li> <li>cool</li></ol><p></p></body></html>";
System.out.println(convert(html));
}
}
you can simply make a method with multiple replaceAll() like
String RemoveTag(String html){
html = html.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","")
html = html.replaceAll(" ","");
html = html.replaceAll("&"."");
----------
----------
return html;
}
Use this link for most common replacements you need: http://tunes.org/wiki/html_20special_20characters_20and_20symbols.html
It is simple but effective. I use this method first to remove the junk but not the very first line i.e replaceAll("\<.*?>",""), and later i use specific keywords to search for indexes and then use .substring(start, end) method to strip away unnecessary stuff. As this is more robust and you can pin point exactly what you need in the entire html page.
One more way can be to use com.google.gdata.util.common.html.HtmlToText class like
MyWriter.toConsole(HtmlToText.htmlToPlainText(htmlResponse));
This is not bullet proof code though and when I run it on wikipedia entries I am getting style info also. However I believe for small/simple jobs this would be effective.
I often find that I only need to strip out comments and script elements. This has worked reliably for me for 15 years and can easily be extended to handle any element name in HTML or XML:
// delete all comments
response = response.replaceAll("<!--[^>]*-->", "");
// delete all script elements
response = response.replaceAll("<(script|SCRIPT)[^+]*?>[^>]*?<(/script|SCRIPT)>", "");
Alternatively, one can use HtmlCleaner:
private CharSequence removeHtmlFrom(String html) {
return new HtmlCleaner().clean(html).getText();
}
The accepted answer of doing simply Jsoup.parse(html).text() has 2 potential issues (with JSoup 1.7.3):
<script> into <script>If you use this to protect against XSS, this is a bit annoying. Here is my best shot at an improved solution, using both JSoup and Apache StringEscapeUtils:
// breaks multi-level of escaping, preventing &lt;script&gt; to be rendered as <script>
String replace = input.replace("&", "");
// decode any encoded html, preventing <script> to be rendered as <script>
String html = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(replace);
// remove all html tags, but maintain line breaks
String clean = Jsoup.clean(html, "", Whitelist.none(), new Document.OutputSettings().prettyPrint(false));
// decode html again to convert character entities back into text
return StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(clean);
Note that the last step is because I need to use the output as plain text. If you need only HTML output then you should be able to remove it.
And here is a bunch of test cases (input to output):
{"regular string", "regular string"},
{"<a href=\"link\">A link</a>", "A link"},
{"<script src=\"http://evil.url.com\"/>", ""},
{"<script>", ""},
{"&lt;script&gt;", "lt;scriptgt;"}, // best effort
{"\" ' > < \n \\ é å à ü and & preserved", "\" ' > < \n \\ é å à ü and & preserved"}
If you find a way to make it better, please let me know.
Another way is to use javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit to extract the text.
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.*;
public class Html2Text extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
StringBuffer s;
public Html2Text() {
}
public void parse(Reader in) throws IOException {
s = new StringBuffer();
ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
// the third parameter is TRUE to ignore charset directive
delegator.parse(in, this, Boolean.TRUE);
}
public void handleText(char[] text, int pos) {
s.append(text);
}
public String getText() {
return s.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// the HTML to convert
FileReader in = new FileReader("java-new.html");
Html2Text parser = new Html2Text();
parser.parse(in);
in.close();
System.out.println(parser.getText());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Worth noting that if you're trying to accomplish this in a Service Stack project, it's already a built-in string extension
using ServiceStack.Text;
// ...
"The <b>quick</b> brown <p> fox </p> jumps over the lazy dog".StripHtml();
Also very simple using Jericho, and you can retain some of the formatting (line breaks and links, for example).
Source htmlSource = new Source(htmlText);
Segment htmlSeg = new Segment(htmlSource, 0, htmlSource.length());
Renderer htmlRend = new Renderer(htmlSeg);
System.out.println(htmlRend.toString());
If the user enters <b>hey!</b>, do you want to display <b>hey!</b> or hey!? If the first, escape less-thans, and html-encode ampersands (and optionally quotes) and you're fine. A modification to your code to implement the second option would be:
replaceAll("\\<[^>]*>","")
but you will run into issues if the user enters something malformed, like <bhey!</b>.
You can also check out JTidy which will parse "dirty" html input, and should give you a way to remove the tags, keeping the text.
The problem with trying to strip html is that browsers have very lenient parsers, more lenient than any library you can find will, so even if you do your best to strip all tags (using the replace method above, a DOM library, or JTidy), you will still need to make sure to encode any remaining HTML special characters to keep your output safe.
Use Html.fromHtml
HTML Tags are
<a href=”…”> <b>, <big>, <blockquote>, <br>, <cite>, <dfn>
<div align=”…”>, <em>, <font size=”…” color=”…” face=”…”>
<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>
<i>, <p>, <small>
<strike>, <strong>, <sub>, <sup>, <tt>, <u>
As per Android’s official Documentations any tags in the HTML will display as a generic replacement String which your program can then go through and replace with real strings.
Html.formHtml method takes an Html.TagHandler and an Html.ImageGetter as arguments as well as the text to parse.
String Str_Html=" <p>This is about me text that the user can put into their profile</p> ";
Then
Your_TextView_Obj.setText(Html.fromHtml(Str_Html).toString());
Output
This is about me text that the user can put into their profile
I often find that I only need to strip out comments and script elements. This has worked reliably for me for 15 years and can easily be extended to handle any element name in HTML or XML:
// delete all comments
response = response.replaceAll("<!--[^>]*-->", "");
// delete all script elements
response = response.replaceAll("<(script|SCRIPT)[^+]*?>[^>]*?<(/script|SCRIPT)>", "");
This should work -
use this
text.replaceAll('<.*?>' , " ") -> This will replace all the html tags with a space.
and this
text.replaceAll('&.*?;' , "")-> this will replace all the tags which starts with "&" and ends with ";" like , &, > etc.
I know this is old, but I was just working on a project that required me to filter HTML and this worked fine:
noHTMLString.replaceAll("\\&.*?\\;", "");
instead of this:
html = html.replaceAll(" ","");
html = html.replaceAll("&"."");
To get formateed plain html text you can do that:
String BR_ESCAPED = "<br/>";
Element el=Jsoup.parse(html).select("body");
el.select("br").append(BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("p").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h1").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h2").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h3").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h4").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
el.select("h5").append(BR_ESCAPED+BR_ESCAPED);
String nodeValue=el.text();
nodeValue=nodeValue.replaceAll(BR_ESCAPED, "<br/>");
nodeValue=nodeValue.replaceAll("(\\s*<br[^>]*>){3,}", "<br/><br/>");
To get formateed plain text change <br/> by \n and change last line by:
nodeValue=nodeValue.replaceAll("(\\s*\n){3,}", "<br/><br/>");
HTML Escaping is really hard to do right- I'd definitely suggest using library code to do this, as it's a lot more subtle than you'd think. Check out Apache's StringEscapeUtils for a pretty good library for handling this in Java.
One way to retain new-line info with JSoup is to precede all new line tags with some dummy string, execute JSoup and replace dummy string with "\n".
String html = "<p>Line one</p><p>Line two</p>Line three<br/>etc.";
String NEW_LINE_MARK = "NEWLINESTART1234567890NEWLINEEND";
for (String tag: new String[]{"</p>","<br/>","</h1>","</h2>","</h3>","</h4>","</h5>","</h6>","</li>"}) {
html = html.replace(tag, NEW_LINE_MARK+tag);
}
String text = Jsoup.parse(html).text();
text = text.replace(NEW_LINE_MARK + " ", "\n\n");
text = text.replace(NEW_LINE_MARK, "\n\n");
On Android, try this:
String result = Html.fromHtml(html).toString();
If the user enters <b>hey!</b>, do you want to display <b>hey!</b> or hey!? If the first, escape less-thans, and html-encode ampersands (and optionally quotes) and you're fine. A modification to your code to implement the second option would be:
replaceAll("\\<[^>]*>","")
but you will run into issues if the user enters something malformed, like <bhey!</b>.
You can also check out JTidy which will parse "dirty" html input, and should give you a way to remove the tags, keeping the text.
The problem with trying to strip html is that browsers have very lenient parsers, more lenient than any library you can find will, so even if you do your best to strip all tags (using the replace method above, a DOM library, or JTidy), you will still need to make sure to encode any remaining HTML special characters to keep your output safe.
Use Html.fromHtml
HTML Tags are
<a href=”…”> <b>, <big>, <blockquote>, <br>, <cite>, <dfn>
<div align=”…”>, <em>, <font size=”…” color=”…” face=”…”>
<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, <h4>, <h5>, <h6>
<i>, <p>, <small>
<strike>, <strong>, <sub>, <sup>, <tt>, <u>
As per Android’s official Documentations any tags in the HTML will display as a generic replacement String which your program can then go through and replace with real strings.
Html.formHtml method takes an Html.TagHandler and an Html.ImageGetter as arguments as well as the text to parse.
String Str_Html=" <p>This is about me text that the user can put into their profile</p> ";
Then
Your_TextView_Obj.setText(Html.fromHtml(Str_Html).toString());
Output
This is about me text that the user can put into their profile
HTML Escaping is really hard to do right- I'd definitely suggest using library code to do this, as it's a lot more subtle than you'd think. Check out Apache's StringEscapeUtils for a pretty good library for handling this in Java.
Another way is to use javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit to extract the text.
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.*;
public class Html2Text extends HTMLEditorKit.ParserCallback {
StringBuffer s;
public Html2Text() {
}
public void parse(Reader in) throws IOException {
s = new StringBuffer();
ParserDelegator delegator = new ParserDelegator();
// the third parameter is TRUE to ignore charset directive
delegator.parse(in, this, Boolean.TRUE);
}
public void handleText(char[] text, int pos) {
s.append(text);
}
public String getText() {
return s.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
try {
// the HTML to convert
FileReader in = new FileReader("java-new.html");
Html2Text parser = new Html2Text();
parser.parse(in);
in.close();
System.out.println(parser.getText());
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
One way to retain new-line info with JSoup is to precede all new line tags with some dummy string, execute JSoup and replace dummy string with "\n".
String html = "<p>Line one</p><p>Line two</p>Line three<br/>etc.";
String NEW_LINE_MARK = "NEWLINESTART1234567890NEWLINEEND";
for (String tag: new String[]{"</p>","<br/>","</h1>","</h2>","</h3>","</h4>","</h5>","</h6>","</li>"}) {
html = html.replace(tag, NEW_LINE_MARK+tag);
}
String text = Jsoup.parse(html).text();
text = text.replace(NEW_LINE_MARK + " ", "\n\n");
text = text.replace(NEW_LINE_MARK, "\n\n");
One could also use Apache Tika for this purpose. By default it preserves whitespaces from the stripped html, which may be desired in certain situations:
InputStream htmlInputStream = ..
HtmlParser htmlParser = new HtmlParser();
HtmlContentHandler htmlContentHandler = new HtmlContentHandler();
htmlParser.parse(htmlInputStream, htmlContentHandler, new Metadata())
System.out.println(htmlContentHandler.getBodyText().trim())
It sounds like you want to go from HTML to plain text.
If that is the case look at www.htmlparser.org. Here is an example that strips all the tags out from the html file found at a URL.
It makes use of org.htmlparser.beans.StringBean.
static public String getUrlContentsAsText(String url) {
String content = "";
StringBean stringBean = new StringBean();
stringBean.setURL(url);
content = stringBean.getStrings();
return content;
}
Alternatively, one can use HtmlCleaner:
private CharSequence removeHtmlFrom(String html) {
return new HtmlCleaner().clean(html).getText();
}
This should work -
use this
text.replaceAll('<.*?>' , " ") -> This will replace all the html tags with a space.
and this
text.replaceAll('&.*?;' , "")-> this will replace all the tags which starts with "&" and ends with ";" like , &, > etc.
My 5 cents:
String[] temp = yourString.split("&");
String tmp = "";
if (temp.length > 1) {
for (int i = 0; i < temp.length; i++) {
tmp += temp[i] + "&";
}
yourString = tmp.substring(0, tmp.length() - 1);
}
It sounds like you want to go from HTML to plain text.
If that is the case look at www.htmlparser.org. Here is an example that strips all the tags out from the html file found at a URL.
It makes use of org.htmlparser.beans.StringBean.
static public String getUrlContentsAsText(String url) {
String content = "";
StringBean stringBean = new StringBean();
stringBean.setURL(url);
content = stringBean.getStrings();
return content;
}
If you're writing for Android you can do this...
android.text.HtmlCompat.fromHtml(instruction, HtmlCompat.FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY).toString()
If the user enters <b>hey!</b>, do you want to display <b>hey!</b> or hey!? If the first, escape less-thans, and html-encode ampersands (and optionally quotes) and you're fine. A modification to your code to implement the second option would be:
replaceAll("\\<[^>]*>","")
but you will run into issues if the user enters something malformed, like <bhey!</b>.
You can also check out JTidy which will parse "dirty" html input, and should give you a way to remove the tags, keeping the text.
The problem with trying to strip html is that browsers have very lenient parsers, more lenient than any library you can find will, so even if you do your best to strip all tags (using the replace method above, a DOM library, or JTidy), you will still need to make sure to encode any remaining HTML special characters to keep your output safe.
Sometimes the html string come from xml with such <. When using Jsoup we need parse it and then clean it.
Document doc = Jsoup.parse(htmlstrl);
Whitelist wl = Whitelist.none();
String plain = Jsoup.clean(doc.text(), wl);
While only using Jsoup.parse(htmlstrl).text() can't remove tags.
Worth noting that if you're trying to accomplish this in a Service Stack project, it's already a built-in string extension
using ServiceStack.Text;
// ...
"The <b>quick</b> brown <p> fox </p> jumps over the lazy dog".StripHtml();
Try this for javascript:
const strippedString = htmlString.replace(/(<([^>]+)>)/gi, "");
console.log(strippedString);
classeString.replaceAll("\\<(/?[^\\>]+)\\>", "\\ ").replaceAll("\\s+", " ").trim()
I think that the simpliest way to filter the html tags is:
private static final Pattern REMOVE_TAGS = Pattern.compile("<.+?>");
public static String removeTags(String string) {
if (string == null || string.length() == 0) {
return string;
}
Matcher m = REMOVE_TAGS.matcher(string);
return m.replaceAll("");
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com