Get data in blocks about node-html-to-text HOT 4 CLOSED

This sounds like some specific use case which might not be useful for everyone and for which I still have no clear understanding. People might have different ideas how to split a document in blocks.

Currently there is baseElements set of options.
You can specify baseElements.selectors array for all things you consider blocks (in your definition) and want to process.
All results will be merged into single output string though. I might think about a way to output results for each base element separately, but I need a real-world example where it might be useful.

There are multiple hacky solutions that might be done currently to separate outputs for base elements. But running a separate parser to get your block first would be more clean and robust solution for now.

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Yes, an example of a use case would be to extract a table from a website, as I don't know the site beforehand, it would be useful for me to know which part of the text is the actual table, but I do agree that this might actually be better to do using a html parser and then pass the output to node-html-to-text. Thanks for confirming it!

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If you can define a CSS selector for a table - you can extract it with already available options.

If you need to extract multiple tables separately from one page - that might be tricky now.

If you need to extract a table that is used for data, not layout, but you can't provide a selector and want to use some heuristic - such heuristic can be implemented with a custom formatter, but it is not great for extraction purposes.

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Yes, to be honest this library is so great at doing what it does that I wouldn't want it to actually solve this problem. It's perfect as it is, you give html as input and it gives text as output.

From the HTML you should anyways be able to know if it's a table or now, so no need to pollute this great library with a function very few people will need.

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