Ghost/core/shared/html-to-plaintext.js

const _ = require('lodash');

const mergeSettings = (extraSettings) => {
    return _.mergeWith({}, baseSettings, extraSettings, function customizer(objValue, srcValue) {
        if (_.isArray(objValue)) {
            return objValue.concat(srcValue);
        }
    });
};

const baseSettings = {
    wordwrap: false,
    preserveNewlines: true,

    // equiv returnDomByDefault: true,
    baseElements: {returnDomByDefault: true},
    selectors: [
        // Ignore images, equiv ignoreImage: true
        {selector: 'img', format: 'skip'},

        // disable uppercase headings, equiv uppercaseHeadings: false
        {selector: 'h1', options: {uppercase: false}},
        {selector: 'h2', options: {uppercase: false}},
        {selector: 'h3', options: {uppercase: false}},
        {selector: 'h4', options: {uppercase: false}},
        {selector: 'h5', options: {uppercase: false}},
        {selector: 'h6', options: {uppercase: false}},
        {selector: 'table', options: {uppercaseHeaderCells: false}},

        // Backwards compatibility with html-to-text 5.1.1
        {selector: 'div', format: 'inline'}
    ]
};

let excerptConverter;
let emailConverter;

const loadConverters = () => {
    if (excerptConverter && emailConverter) {
        return;
    }

    const {compile} = require('html-to-text');

    const excerptSettings = mergeSettings({
        selectors: [
            {selector: 'a', options: {ignoreHref: true}},
            {selector: 'figcaption', format: 'skip'},
            // Strip inline and bottom footnotes
            {selector: 'a[rel=footnote]', format: 'skip'},
            {selector: 'div.footnotes', format: 'skip'}
        ]
    });

    const emailSettings = mergeSettings({
        selectors: [
            // equiv hideLinkHrefIfSameAsText: true
            {selector: 'a', options: {hideLinkHrefIfSameAsText: true}}
        ]
    });

    excerptConverter = compile(excerptSettings);
    emailConverter = compile(emailSettings);
};

module.exports.excerpt = (html) => {
    loadConverters();

    return excerptConverter(html);
};

module.exports.email = (html) => {
    loadConverters();

    return emailConverter(html);
};