EmailReplyParser is a small Java library for parsing plain text email content, based on GitHub's email_reply_parser library.

Run mvn clean test package. A nice and fresh EmailReplyParser-1.0.jar file will appear in the EmailReplyParser/target directory.

Import the Email and EmailParser classes.

import com.edlio.emailreplyparser.Email;
import com.edlio.emailreplyparser.EmailParser;

Instantiate an EmailParser object and parse your email:

EmailParser parser = new EmailParser();
Email email = parser.parse(emailString);

You get an Email object that contains a set of Fragment objects. The Email class exposes two methods:

• getFragments(): returns a list of fragments;
• getVisibleText(): returns a string which represents the content considered as "visible".
• getHiddenText(): returns a string which represents the content considered as "hidden".

The Fragment represents a part of the full email content, and has the following API:

String content = fragment.getContent();

boolean isSignature = fragment.isSignature();

boolean isQuoted = fragment.isQuoted();

boolean isHiiden = fragment.isHidden();

boolean isEmpty = fragment.isEmpty();

Alternatively, you can rely on the EmailReplyParser to either parse an email or get its visible content in a single line of code:

Email email = EmailReplayParser.read(emailContentString);

String reply = EmailReplyParser.parseReply(emailContentString);

• GitHub
• William Durand [email protected]
• Edlio

EmailReplyParser is released under the MIT License. See the bundled LICENSE file for details.