Package org.jsoup.examples

## Class HtmlToPlainText

- java.lang.Object
- - org.jsoup.examples.HtmlToPlainText

    public class HtmlToPlainText
    extends java.lang.Object

HTML to plain-text. This example program demonstrates the use of jsoup to convert HTML input to lightly-formatted plain-text. That is divergent from the general goal of jsoup's .text() methods, which is to get clean data from a scrape.

Note that this is a fairly simplistic formatter -- for real world use you'll want to embrace and extend.

To invoke from the command line, assuming you've downloaded the jsoup jar to your current directory:

`java -cp jsoup.jar org.jsoup.examples.HtmlToPlainText url [selector]`

where url is the URL to fetch, and selector is an optional CSS selector.

Author:
  Jonathan Hedley, jonathan@hedley.net

### Constructor Summary

Constructors
`HtmlToPlainText()`

### Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods
`java.lang.String` `getPlainText​(Element element)` Format an Element to plain-text
`static void` `main​(java.lang.String... args)`

### Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

### Constructor Detail

#### HtmlToPlainText

    public HtmlToPlainText()

### Method Detail

#### main

    public static void main​(java.lang.String... args)
                     throws java.io.IOException

Throws:
  `java.io.IOException`

#### getPlainText

    public java.lang.String getPlainText​(Element element)

Format an Element to plain-text

Parameters:
  `element` - the root element to format
Returns:
  formatted text