IMAP4_SSL with gmail in python

Question

We are retrieving mails from our gmail account using IMAP4_SSL and python. The email body is retrieved in html format. We need to convert that to plaintext. Can anyone help us with that?

Answer 1

Stand on the shoulders of giants...
Peter Bengtsson has worked out a solution to this exact problem here .
Peter's script uses the awesome BeautifulSoup , by Leonard Richardson,
and Fredrik Lundh's unescape() function .

Using Peter's test case, you get this:

This is a paragraph.

Foobar [1]
http://two.com

Visit http://www.google.com.

Text elsewhere. Elsewhere [2]

[1] http://one.com
[2] http://three.com

...from this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>

<div id="main">
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<p><a href="http://one.com">Foobar</a>
<br />

<a href="http://two.com">two.com</a>

</p>
  <p>Visit <a href="http://www.google.com">www.google.com</a>.</p>
<br />
Text elsewhere.

<a href="http://three.com">Elsewhere</a>

</div>
</body>
</html>

IMAP4_SSL with gmail in python

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IMAP4_SSL with gmail in python

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solution1 2 2009-06-04 06:05:17

solution1
2 2009-06-04 06:05:17