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hackaday.io-spambot-hunter/hadsh/htmlstrip.py
Stuart Longland 64ed885f54
htmlstrip: Add HTML stripper.
This will be used for grabbing the plain text of users' profiles for
tokenisation with `polyglot`.
2018-02-02 22:00:33 +10:00

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Python

#!/usr/bin/env python
# HTML Stripper tool
# Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7778368
try:
# Python 3.4+
from html.parser import HTMLParser
except ImportError:
# Python 2.x
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser
try:
# Python 3.4+
from html import entities as htmlentitydefs
except ImportError:
# Python 2.7
import htmlentitydefs
class HTMLTextExtractor(HTMLParser):
def __init__(self):
HTMLParser.__init__(self)
self.result = [ ]
def handle_data(self, d):
self.result.append(d)
def handle_charref(self, number):
codepoint = int(number[1:], 16) \
if number[0] in (u'x', u'X') \
else int(number)
self.result.append(unichr(codepoint))
def handle_entityref(self, name):
codepoint = htmlentitydefs.name2codepoint[name]
self.result.append(unichr(codepoint))
def get_text(self):
return u''.join(self.result)
def html_to_text(html):
s = HTMLTextExtractor()
s.feed(html)
return s.get_text()