# Sending HTML through REST API for html\_strip

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-html-through-rest-api-for-html-strip/26344>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 27, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-html-through-rest-api-for-html-strip/26344 "2015-07-27T15:02:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Cumming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jennifer\_Cumming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jennifer_Cumming)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 3:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-html-through-rest-api-for-html-strip/26344/1 "2015-07-27T15:02:09Z")

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I'm trying to setup a mapping that will use html\_strip filter in a custom analyzer to strip html tags before indexing. Setting up the mapping was relatively easy but now I find the only way I can get the filter to work when indexing data is to URL encode the HTML. This just seem wrong, surely I should be able to just send an HTML string in the request body of my index request?

This is my index settings:

```
{
    "settings": {
      "index": {
        "analysis": {
          "analyzer": {
            "html_analyzer": {
              "filter": [
                "standard"
              ],
              "char_filter": [
                "html_strip"
              ],
              "type":"custom",
              "tokenizer" : "standard"
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }   
}

```

And this is my type mapping:

```
{
  "test_type": {
    "mappings": {
      "test_type": {
        "dynamic": "strict",
        "properties": {
          "createtime": {
            "type": "long"
          },
          "updatetime": {
            "type": "long"
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "description": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "label": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "notes": {
            "properties": {
              "author": {
                "properties": {
                  "firstname": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "secondname": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }
              },
              "category": {
                "type": "string"
              },
              "createdate": {
                "type": "date",
                "format": "dateOptionalTime"
              },
              "detail": {
                "type": "string",
                "analyzer": "html_analyzer"
              },
              "type": {
                "type": "string"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

If I use the analyze endpoint to test it works

GET [http://localhost:9200/test2/\_analyze?analyzer=html\_analyzer&text=this+](http://localhost:9200/test2/_analyze?analyzer=html_analyzer&text=this+) **is** +a+note

```
{
  "tokens": [
    {
      "token": "this",
      "start_offset": 0,
      "end_offset": 4,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "token": "is",
      "start_offset": 8,
      "end_offset": 14,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "token": "a",
      "start_offset": 15,
      "end_offset": 16,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "token": "note",
      "start_offset": 17,
      "end_offset": 21,
      "type": "<ALPHANUM>",
      "position": 4
    }
  ]
}

```

However, if I then index the same string in a document

```
PUT http://localhost:9200/test2/test_type/1
{"title": "title1", "_notes": [{"type": "test", "detail": "this <b>is</b> a note"}], "_updatetime": 1438007564786}

```

And search for 'b'

```
GET http://localhost:9200/test2/_search?q=b

```

Then I get a hit from the document

The only way I've managed to get this to work is to send the HTML string URL encoded i.e.

```
PUT http://localhost:9200/test2/test_type/1
{"title": "title1", "_notes": [{"type": "test", "detail": "This %3Cb%3Eis%3C%5Cb%3E a note"}], "_updatetime": 1438007564800}
```

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**Author:** ![Jennifer\_Cumming](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cab0a1/32.png) [@Jennifer\_Cumming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jennifer_Cumming)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2015, 3:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-html-through-rest-api-for-html-strip/26344/2 "2015-07-27T15:07:11Z")

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Just realised that Postman may be URL encoding the string I'm sending to the \_analyze API, so that would make it consistent but it's still strange I have to URL encode the string when it is part of a JSON request body.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sending-html-through-rest-api-for-html-strip/26344/3 "2017-07-05T23:58:49Z")

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