Entity to Text

This suite is primarily a set of APIs and tools to improve the developer experience.

This module provides a number of utility and helper APIs for developers to transform content into plain text.

Use Entity to Text if

• You need to get plain-text content of Nodes for Indexing content into a Search Engine (Solr, Elasticsearch, ...).
• You want to get plain-text of Nodes Paragraphs for SEO or JSON-LD.
• You need to transform "Node entity" field(s) into plain-text content.
• You need to transform "Paragraphs entity" field(s) into plain-text content.
• You need to transform "File entity" into plain-text through Tika.

Dependencies

The main module requires ezyang/htmlpurifier

The submodule entity_to_text_tika requires the library vaites/php-apache-tika. The submodule entity_to_text_paragraphs requires the library drupal/paragraphs.

Which version should I use?

Drupal Core	Entity to Text
8.x	-
9.x	1.0.x
10.x	1.0.x

Getting Started

We highly recommend you to install the module using composer.

$ composer require drupal/entity_to_text

Examples

Node fields to text

Usage

/** @var string $field_body_content */
$field_body_content = \Drupal::service('entity_to_text.extractor.node_to_text')->fromFieldtoText('body', $node);
/** @var string $field_foo_content */
$field_foo_content = \Drupal::service('entity_to_text.extractor.node_to_text')->fromFieldtoText('field_foo', $node);

Paragraphs to text

Prerequisite

• Enabled entity_to_text_paragraphs module

Usage

/** @var array[] $bodies */
$bodies = \Drupal::service('entity_to_text_paragraphs.extractor.paragraphs_to_text')->fromParagraphToText($node->field_paragraphs);

File to text

Prerequisite

• Having access to Tika as a RESTful API via the Tika server.
• Enabled entity_to_text_tika module
• Setup the settings.php configuration

/**
 * Apache Tika connection.
 */
$settings['entity_to_text_tika.connection']['host'] = 'tika';
$settings['entity_to_text_tika.connection']['port'] = '9998';

Usage

/** @var \Drupal\file\Entity\File $file */
$file = $file_item->entity;
$body = \Drupal::service('entity_to_text_tika.extractor.file_to_text')->fromFileToText($file, 'eng+fra');

Supporting organizations

This project is sponsored by Antistatique, a Swiss Web Agency. Visit us at www.antistatique.net or Contact us.

Credits

Entity to Text is currently maintained by Kevin Wenger. Thank you to all our wonderful contributors too.