Parse HTML to text

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Hi

Im trying to parse a HTML to raw text, is there any plugin or gem for this ? exactly im trying to parse an email response whether it's HTML or Text or both of them.

Thank you

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There are many ways.

One way is Hpricot gem.

Check this link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1243817/hpricot-get-all-text-from-document

require 'hpricot'
require 'open-uri'

doc  = open("[http://stackoverflow.com/](http://stackoverflow.com/)") { |f| Hpricot(f) }

text = (doc/"//*/text()") # array of text values

puts text.join("\n")
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Amala Singh wrote:

There are many ways.

One way is Hpricot gem.

That's true, but I think most people are using Nokogiri these days.

Best,

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Thank you i found nokogiri is very helpful.