Convert hyperlinks to plain text

[anleva]

What's the best way to convert hyperlinks to plain text in my recipes? I often accidentally touch a hyperlink in my Kindle when turning pages and it tries to then bring up a browser to the link. I'd rather just remove all the hyperlinks if possible.

[kovidgoyal]

Use postprocess_html and simply remove the href attribute from all <a> tags.

[anleva]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Use postprocess_html and simply remove the href attribute from all <a> tags.

This is definitely a bit beyond me as I am not very knowledgeable about python or HTML. Here is what I came up with, but it doesn't seem to do it. What's missing?

def postprocess_html(self, soup):
for a in soup.findAll('a', href=True):
del a['href']
return soup

[kovidgoyal]

postprocess_html takes two arguments, otherwise it looks fine.

[anleva]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

postprocess_html takes two arguments, otherwise it looks fine.

I changed it to the following and added it to my recipe, no hyperlinks were removed. They were not removed in the previous version either. What's wrong with the code?

def postprocess_html(self, soup, first_fetch):
for a in soup.findAll('a', href=True):
del a['href']
return soup

[kovidgoyal]

You probably got the indentation level wrong.

[anleva]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

You probably got the indentation level wrong.

Is this right?

[kovidgoyal]

No, the indentation of the entire postprocess_html method needs to be increased by one level so that it belongs to the class

[anleva]

kovidgoyal, you are the man! That worked. Thanks for your patience, I am learning much along the way.

anleva