extract-dom-content

Provide a DOM element and get all of its cleaned and standardized text content in an array or string.

This library was originally developed with webpage spellchecking in mind, but can be used for any purpose you might have for it.

Installation

npm install extract-dom-content

API

extractDomContent(originalNode, [options]) ⇒ String | Array

Takes in a DOM element and returns all of its text content.

Param	Type	Default	Description
originalNode	Element		DOM element to get the content from.
[options]	Object	{}	An object of options to apply additionals filters and/or change the return type.
[options.returnAsArray]	boolean	false	Whether the content should be returned as a linebreak-separated string or an array of strings.
[options.removeDuplicates]	boolean	false	Whether duplicate strings should be removed or kept.

Browser & Virtual DOM support

This package supports nodes from:

• regular browser DOMs (tested in Google Chrome) ✅
• jsdom ✅

If you have tried the package with a different virtual DOM package/library, please let us know how it went so we can add the information on this page.

Contributing

If you would like to add features, fix bugs or optimize this package, feel free to fork this repository and submit a pull request.