Html agility pack get inner text

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public virtual string InnerText { get; }

Gets the text between the start and end tags of the object. InnerText is a member of HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNode

Example

var htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(html);

var htmlNodes = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//body/h2");

foreach (var node in htmlNodes)
{
    Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText);
}

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The HTML I use is as follows:

        

            

                
 
                    Copyright © FUCHS Online Ltd, 2013. All Rights Reserved.
                
             
        

In my C# code, I want to extract the following content from the markup: "Copyright © FUCHS Online Ltd, 2013. All Rights ".

I have tried what the following:

   public string getvalue()
        {
            HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
            HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = web.Load("www.fuchsonline.com");
            var link = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//div[@id='footertext']");
            return link.ToString();
        }

This produces a "HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlNodeCollection" object. How can I get the text value alone?

Input

foo bar baz

Output

foo
bar
baz

I know of htmldoc.DocumentNode.InnerText, but it will give foobarbaz - I want to get each text, not all at a time.

AakashM

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asked Nov 15, 2010 at 8:25

XPATH is your friend :)

HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(@"
foo bar baz
");

foreach(HtmlNode node in doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes("//text()"))
{
    Console.WriteLine("text=" + node.InnerText);
}

answered Nov 21, 2010 at 9:50

Simon MourierSimon Mourier

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var root = doc.DocumentNode;
var sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (var node in root.DescendantNodesAndSelf())
{
    if (!node.HasChildNodes)
    {
        string text = node.InnerText;
        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(text))
            sb.AppendLine(text.Trim());
    }
}

This does what you need, but I am not sure if this is the best way. Maybe you should iterate through something other than DescendantNodesAndSelf for optimal performance.

answered Nov 15, 2010 at 9:15

DypplDyppl

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I was in the need of a solution that extracts all text but discards the content of script and style tags. I could not find it anywhere, but I came up with the following which suits my own needs:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
IEnumerable nodes = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants().Where( n => 
    n.NodeType == HtmlNodeType.Text &&
    n.ParentNode.Name != "script" &&
    n.ParentNode.Name != "style");
foreach (HtmlNode node in nodes) {
    Console.WriteLine(node.InnerText);

answered Sep 24, 2014 at 16:20

1

var pageContent = "{html content goes here}";
var pageDoc = new HtmlDocument();
pageDoc.LoadHtml(pageContent);
var pageText = pageDoc.DocumentNode.InnerText;

The specified example for html content:

foo bar baz

will produce the following output:

foo bar baz

answered Dec 12, 2014 at 10:29

Vadim GremyachevVadim Gremyachev

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public string html2text(string html) {
    HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
    doc.LoadHtml(@"" + html + "");
    return doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode("//body").InnerText;
}

This workaround is based on Html Agility Pack. You can also install it via NuGet (package name: HtmlAgilityPack).

answered Nov 11, 2015 at 16:29

Vito GentileVito Gentile

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https://github.com/jamietre/CsQuery

have you tried CsQuery? Though not being maintained actively - it's still my favorite for parsing HTML to Text. Here's a one liner of how simple it is to get the Text from HTML.

var text = CQ.CreateDocument(htmlText).Text();

Here's a complete console application:

using System;
using CsQuery;

public class Program
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        var html = "
Hello World 
 some text inside h2 tag under p tag 
 
";
        var text = CQ.CreateDocument(html).Text();
        Console.WriteLine(text); // Output: Hello World  some text inside h2 tag under p tag

    }
}

I understand that OP has asked for HtmlAgilityPack only but CsQuery is another unpopular and one of the best solutions I've found and wanted to share if someone finds this helpful. Cheers!

answered Oct 23, 2020 at 10:28

Sunny SharmaSunny Sharma

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I just changed and fixed some people's answers to work better:

var document = new HtmlDocument();
        document.LoadHtml(result);
        var sb = new StringBuilder();
        foreach (var node in document.DocumentNode.DescendantsAndSelf())
        {
            if (!node.HasChildNodes && node.Name == "#text" && node.ParentNode.Name != "script" && node.ParentNode.Name != "style")
            {
                string text = node.InnerText?.Trim();
                if (text.HasValue() && !text.StartsWith('<') && !text.EndsWith('>'))
                    sb.AppendLine(System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(text.Trim()));
            }
        }

answered Nov 3 at 12:16

Ali YousefiAli Yousefi

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