How to remove HTML from a text string in Java

It’s smart to have HTML script attacks on your radar; they can cause some major headaches. Today we are going to look at how to filter out scripts from a text string, giving you an extra layer of protection against this threat. Not only that, we are going to get this done in a real hurry.

First things first, we need our library. We are going to dynamically compile this with Jitpack, so we need to add some references to pom.xml.

Repository

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jitpack.io</id>
        <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Dependency

<dependencies>
<dependency>
    <groupId>com.github.Cloudmersive</groupId>
    <artifactId>Cloudmersive.APIClient.Java</artifactId>
    <version>v3.34</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

Now call editTextRemoveHtml, as we have demonstrated here:

// Import classes:
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiClient;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.ApiException;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.Configuration;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.invoker.auth.*;
//import com.cloudmersive.client.EditTextApi;
ApiClient defaultClient = Configuration.getDefaultApiClient();
// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
ApiKeyAuth Apikey = (ApiKeyAuth) defaultClient.getAuthentication("Apikey");
Apikey.setApiKey("YOUR API KEY");
// Uncomment the following line to set a prefix for the API key, e.g. "Token" (defaults to null)
//Apikey.setApiKeyPrefix("Token");
EditTextApi apiInstance = new EditTextApi();
RemoveHtmlFromTextRequest request = new RemoveHtmlFromTextRequest(); // RemoveHtmlFromTextRequest | Input request
try {
RemoveHtmlFromTextResponse result = apiInstance.editTextRemoveHtml(request);
System.out.println(result);
} catch (ApiException e) {
System.err.println("Exception when calling EditTextApi#editTextRemoveHtml");
e.printStackTrace();
}

And the API does the hard work for us! Any HTML — and the potential hazards they carry — have now been stripped out of our string.