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Cloudflare Developers•3y ago
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HTMLRewriter treats self closing tags like <img/> as text

I am using HTMLRewriter to get the plain text of a website. Using the following code listening to the text event, it results in uggly <img ....../> or <iframe .../> being included in my result:
  let total = "";

  const rewriter = new HTMLRewriter()
    .on(`article`, {
      text(text: Text): void | Promise<void> {
        total += text.text;
      }
    })
  ;


After transforming an html response, this is how response can look like:

<iframe class="hide_iframe_" src="[...]"></iframe><img class="hide_iframe" height="1" width="1" alt="" src="[...]"/> Actual normal text <img src="[...]" alt="..." placeholder="blur" /> ...rest of the article
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