Getting the text only

[samholmes]

I could use marked and cheerio to first convert the markdown to HTML, then use cheerio's text() method to get the textual content out of the HTML. However, why couldn't marked save me this step?

I suggest that marked add a simple feature to be able to get just the text out of a markdown file. Why is this useful? If I wanted to display an excerpt of the body of a blog post and have that except contain only text without formatting, I would need this method. Simple.

Thanks for reading! Please consider this small feature.

[kuba-kubula]

s = "";
JSON.stringify(marked.lexer('> markdowned text'), function(key, val) {
    if (key == 'text') {
        s += val;
    }
    return val;
});
console.log(s);

Not so nice solution, but works

[samholmes]

@kuba-kubula doesn't seem to work actually.

[kuba-kubula]

@samholmes sorry, repaired the code.

[chjj]

@kuba-kubula is on the right track, but if you grab all the text tokens from the lexer, some of them will still have inline markdown in them. Another possibility is the renderer (#129) that's being proposed right now.

[chjj]

Solved with #129.