How to extract text content from HTML in mailgun email function

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I’m working with a mailgun email function and I have both text and HTML versions of my message. I want to get the text value and use it inside the HTML content somehow.

def dispatch_email_message():
    return requests.post(
         "https://api.mailgun.net/v3/DOMAIN/messages",
         auth=("api", "API_TOKEN"),
         files=[("attachment", ("image.png", open("uploads/image.png","rb").read())),
                ("attachment", ("document.pdf", open("uploads/document.pdf","rb").read()))],
         data={"from": "Support Team <[email protected]>",
             "to": "[email protected]",
             "cc": "[email protected]",
             "bcc": "[email protected]",
             "subject": "Welcome Message",
             "text": "Welcome to our platform!",
             "html": "<html><body>HTML email content here</body></html>"})

Is there a method to access the text field value and incorporate it into the HTML field? Any suggestions would be helpful.

2

You’re overthinking this. Those text and HTML fields are just parameters for the API call. If you need to pull text from HTML, use BeautifulSoup - from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, then soup = BeautifulSoup(html_content, 'html.parser') and text_content = soup.get_text(). But honestly? Define your content upfront instead of extracting it backwards. Email systems want both versions since plain text is the fallback when HTML fails.

3

just store your text in a var first. like msg_text = "Welcome to our platform!" then use it in both "text": msg_text and "html": f"<html><body>{msg_text}</body></html>". way simpler than extracting it later.

4

I’ve handled this before and a template function works great. Define your base message once, then format it for both text and HTML versions. Here’s what I use:

def get_message_content():
base_text = “Welcome to our platform!”
return {
“text”: base_text,
“html”: f"

{base_text}

Additional HTML formatting here

"
}

content = get_message_content()
data = {
“text”: content[“text”],
“html”: content[“html”]
}

Keeps both versions in sync and your code clean. No extraction headaches later.