Extracting alt text from HTML?

[matatk]

I've just been recommended textract and it looks very cool; thanks. I am trying to extract text from HTML and it works fine with things like

<div id="blah">Some Text</div>

but it doesn't pick up alt text, such as

<img src="..." alt="A text alternative for this image">

I was wondering if you have any plans for such a feature (or, if I've missed it, how to extract the values of attributes like this)?

[dbashford]

You haven't missed it, and no plans, but no reason it can't be introduced as a feature!

[matatk]

Hi, just got the closure notice for this issue; can see you have been working on it; thanks. I have been working on it too, and created a small library to extract alt and various other user-facing text attributes from HTML—I have been testing it for a while, which is why I didn't mention it here, though I probably should've, sorry.

If you'd like to use the code I wrote for extracting not just alt attributes but other user-facing text from HTML, then feel free (I can help with a PR too if you'd like).

[dbashford]

I can create another issue to track the other user-facing attributes and include them in the solution. Ought not be too hard to include most of them.