Convert HTML to JSON in react-native

Question

I want to convert the HTML I received from a network request to JSON so I can easily read the values.
If there is a way to read values straight from HTML please let me know in a comment
I have found this library: https://github.com/andrejewski/himalaya
but when I try to run the example in my app I get the error Cannot read property prototype of undefined so I assume this library doesn't work in react-native because it contains a core Node JS module.
This was the code:

import {parse} from 'himalaya'
const html = this.state.html
const json = parse(html)
console.log('👉', json)

Some example html could be:

<div class='post post-featured'>
  <p>Himalaya parsed me...</p>
  <!-- ...and I liked it. -->
</div>

The expected output of this html is:

[{
  type: 'element',
  tagName: 'div',
  attributes: [{
    key: 'class',
    value: 'post post-featured'
  }],
  children: [{
    type: 'element',
    tagName: 'p',
    attributes: [],
    children: [{
      type: 'text',
      content: 'Himalaya parsed me...'
    }]
  }, {
    type: 'comment',
    content: ' ...and I liked it. '
  }]
}]

Is there another way/library to convert HTML to JSON in react native?

Answer 1

There is no issue in using the package you have mentioned in React Native. Everything works as expected given you have followed all required steps:

Install himalaya :

cd project_dir
npm install himalaya

Add the required import at the top of your file:

import {parse} from 'himalaya';

Set the html property in state somewhere in your code, before parsing the HTML result:

this.setState = { html: '<div>Example HTML content</div>' };

Convert the HTML into JSON with parse object:

const html = this.state.html;
const json = parse(html);
alert(JSON.stringify(json));

You can check the code above works as expected in this Snack .