Extract text from HTML String Node.js

Question

I'm building a CMS and the content of a post is saved in HTML in the database.

On the page that lists posts, I would like to show the first n words / n characters, for the short version of the post with a "read more" button.

What would be the best way to strip the text from the HTML the right way, without making it look al weird?

read the html as a string, parse to AST, walk through tree and reduce all text nodes. github.com/fb55/htmlparser2 — Daniel Lizik
– Daniel Lizik, Commented Dec 15, 2016 at 21:24

FrancisMarconcini · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-17 00:28:52Z

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you can try use the library html-to-text (npm install html-to-text). Split all text and show the n array elements.

answered May 17, 2020 at 0:28

FrancisMarconcini

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