HTML to Plain Text with Ruby?

Question

Is there anything out there to convert html to plain text (maybe a nokogiri script)? Something that would keep the line breaks, but that\'s about it.

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Answer 1

Actually, this is much simpler:

require 'rubygems'
require 'nokogiri'

puts Nokogiri::HTML(my_html).text

You still have line break issues, though, so you're going to have to figure out how you want to handle those yourself.