Parse HTML from a Url to iOS swift

Question

I have a Url that when I run it it displays html. I need to use url to display the contents in my iOS app. How do I do that? The examples I have found use WebKit, and I don't want to use webkit because I don't want the user to have the ability to use it as a website

You should be able to block navigation on a WKWebView and you don't need to show previous page button nor URL bar. — Larme
– Larme, Commented May 28, 2018 at 7:22
What actually you want to do? do you want to display HTML String in UILabel or you want to parse HTML and display it in other controls? — PPL
– PPL, Commented May 28, 2018 at 7:28
I have edited the question. When I use url with webkit I get the purple parts that are the header and footer. I don't want the purple parts displayed. I only want the yellow parts. @Larme — grace
– grace, Commented May 28, 2018 at 8:17

user9749232 · Accepted Answer · 2018-05-28 07:24:09Z

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You can use UILabel to display an attributed string parsed with your html string.

Here is the code in Swift 4

extension String {
    func toHtmlString() -> NSAttributedString? {
        guard let data = self.data(using: String.Encoding.utf16, allowLossyConversion: false) else { return nil }
        guard let html = try? NSMutableAttributedString(
            data: data,
            options: [NSAttributedString.DocumentReadingOptionKey.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html],
            documentAttributes: nil) else { return nil }
        return html
    }
}

answered May 28, 2018 at 7:24

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grace Over a year ago

Hi, please check my image above. I only want the yellow parts displayed

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