remove html tags when exporting report in excel format

[OlaAkeela]

When a report contains html formatted texts, exporting it in excel format would show html tags along with data in cells such as shown is the attached image.

I've added code to remove html tags if they exist when exporting a report to excel sheet.

[manassolanki]

Hi @OlaAkeela ,
Please use "html2text" for the same. As this is already in the requirement list of the frappe and cover a lot of edge-cases, so you should use it instead.

[OlaAkeela]

Hi @manassolanki
I tried html2text but it does not give me the required format. As you can see in the attached image, the value of "href" attribute was not omitted.

[manassolanki]

For ignoring the links you have to set ignore_links = True. I hope this would help you

import html2text
obj = html2text.HTML2Text()
#Ignore converting links from HTML
obj.ignore_links = True

[OlaAkeela]

@manassolanki I have used html2text in my last update.
I've found that html2text adds new lines to the end of texts. I've used body_width = 0, but it still produces new lines and my excel sheet was produced as in the attached image.
So I had to remove new break lines manually.
What was the problem of using rejex as I have done firstly like this ?

for row in data:
	clean_row = []
	for item in row:
		cleaner = re.compile('<.*?>')
		clean_row.append(re.sub(cleaner, '', item))

[rmehta]

@OlaAkeela I think the regex was too aggressive, might have taken out email ids like <me@example.com>. Current one looks fine!