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R: Identifies the text of an html string

html2text

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Identifies the text of an html string

Description

This function is used for processing an html string in order to find the main text of this string. The output is a list that contains the extracted text.

Usage

html2text(html, session=getCurlHandle())

Arguments

`html`	A string containing valid html code.
`session`	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

Value

A list with the main text in the html.

Author(s)

Ryan Elmore

References

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#html2text

Examples

	## Not run: 
		html <- '<html><head><title>MyTitle</title></head><body><script
		 type="text/javascript">something();</script><div>Some actual
		 text</div></body></html>'
		html2text(html)
	
## End(Not run)