def dispatch_mail():
result = requests.post(
'https://api.mailgun.net/v3/newdomain.com/send',
auth=('api', 'NEW_SECRET'),
data={
'from': 'Notifier <[email protected]>',
'to': '[email protected]',
'text': 'Basic message text',
'html': '<section>Formatted HTML content</section>'
}
)
return result
How can I access the plain text value nested in the HTML block?
hey, u can try using bs4 to parse the html. load it into BeautifulSoup and then do soup.get_text() to extract the text. hope it hlps!
It is possible to extract plain text from an HTML string without having to depend solely on BeautifulSoup. I have often used the html2text library for this purpose because it converts the entire HTML into plain text in a straightforward manner. This method handles nested tags better than a quick and dirty regular expression solution. In my experience, using html2text not only preserves the necessary line breaks and formatting but also reduces the code complexity, making it an efficient approach for extracting plain text.
In my experience, another practical solution is to use the lxml library along with its built-in HTML parsing capabilities. I found that lxml gives you more control over the parsing process, especially when your HTML content is inconsistently formatted or deeply nested. By using lxml’s etree module, you can cleanly extract text nodes without the extra overhead of additional libraries. It also integrates well with other parts of a Python project, and I’ve appreciated its flexibility when tweaking the parser to suit specific requirements regarding whitespace and tag hierarchies.