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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 20, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parse-html-to-text/188913 "2010-05-20T12:31:45Z")\
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**Author:**  [@cpx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpx)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parse-html-to-text/188913/1 "2010-05-20T12:31:45Z")
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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**Author:**  [@cpx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpx)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parse-html-to-text/188913/2 "2010-05-20T13:25:01Z")
There are many ways.
One way is Hpricot gem.
Check this link:
>
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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Nandri(Thanks in Tamil),
Amala S.
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**Author:**  [@cpx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpx)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parse-html-to-text/188913/3 "2010-05-20T15:10:46Z")
Amala S. wrote:
> There are many ways.
>
> One way is Hpricot gem.
That’s true, but I think most people are using Nokogiri these days.
## Best,
Marnen Laibow-Koser
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)
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**Author:**  [@cpx](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/cpx)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/parse-html-to-text/188913/4 "2010-05-21T04:26:05Z")
Thank you i found nokogiri is very helpful.