Convert HTML to plain-text

Demonstrates how to convert HTML to plain-text. The HTML-to-text conversion component/class is included with the Chilkat HTML-to-XML license.

Downloads for Windows/Linux and Install Instructions

require 'chilkat'

h2t = Chilkat::CkHtmlToText.new()

#  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
success = h2t.UnlockComponent("30-day trial")
if (success != true)
    print h2t.lastErrorText() + "\n"
    exit
end

#  Set the HTML:

html = "<html><body><p>This is a test.</p><blockquote>Here is text within a blockquote</blockquote></body></html>"

plainText = h2t.toText(html)

print plainText + "\n";