How can I get a plain text item description instead of rich content (HTML)?

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sekidata asked Aug 27, '21

How can I get a plain text item description instead of rich content (HTML)?

I'm using a Browse API /item/ call to retrieve the item description for listings of interest. I'm looking for a way to get the item description as plain text, just like what the eBay iPhone app shows under "Item description from the seller". So basically a text version stripped of all rich content.

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Answer 1 · 2021-11-06T20:43:54Z

rick0918 answered Nov 6, '21

It's been a few months now since published, but anyhow, If using PHP, just pass the API response through the strip_tags() function like this:

$stripped_content = strip_tags( $api_response );

echo $stripped_content;

You can use many ways of text formatting in PHP. If using another programming language, then I hope other members can help.

Cheers!

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