Merge pull request #665 from cmccandless/issue-354

Add use case for generation of Plain Text Content from HTML
sendgrid · Dec 7, 2018 · 0282aab · 0282aab
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diff --git a/use_cases/README.md b/use_cases/README.md
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 ### Working with Mail
 * [Asynchronous Mail Send](asynchronous_mail_send.md)
 * [Attachment](attachment.md)
+* [Sending HTML-Only Content](sending_html_content.md)
 * [Transactional Templates](transational_templates.md)
 
 ### Library Features

diff --git a/use_cases/sending_html_content.md b/use_cases/sending_html_content.md
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+# Sending HTML-only Content
+
+
+Currently, we require both HTML and Plain Text content for improved deliverability. In some cases, only HTML may be available. The below example shows how to obtain the Plain Text equivalent of the HTML content.
+
+## Using `beautifulsoup4`
+
+```python
+import sendgrid
+import os
+from sendgrid.helpers.mail import Email, Content, Mail
+try:
+    # Python 3
+    import urllib.request as urllib
+except ImportError:
+    # Python 2
+    import urllib2 as urllib
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+html_text = """
+<html>
+    <body>
+        <p>
+            Some
+            <b>
+                bad
+                <i>
+                    HTML
+                </i>
+            </b>
+        </p>
+    </body>
+</html>
+"""
+
+sg = sendgrid.SendGridAPIClient(apikey=os.environ.get('SENDGRID_API_KEY'))
+from_email = Email("[email protected]")
+subject = "subject"
+to_emila = Email("[email protected]")
+html_content = Content("text/html", html_text)
+
+mail = Mail(from_email, subject, to_email, html_content)
+
+soup = BeautifulSoup(html_text)
+plain_text = soup.get_text()
+plain_content = Content("text/plain", plain_text)
+mail.add_content(plain_content)
+
+try:
+    response = sg.client.mail.send.post(request_body=mail.get())
+except urllib.HTTPError as e:
+    print(e.read())
+    exit()
+
+print(response.status_code)
+print(response.body)
+print(response.headers)
+```