formatting the biography text

The Movie Database Support

posted by shenden
STAFFMOD
on February 17, 2016 at 11:25 AM

Hi,

First and foremost, thans for a great API!

I do wonder though, how do I format the biography text? (bioURL = 'http://api.themoviedb.org/3/person/18897?api_key=') I wanna split it up in a couple of paragraphs instead of it being a wall of text..

Im a bit new working with API:s so Im sorry if the question might be simple and the answer obvious.

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Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on February 17, 2016 at 1:32 PM

Hi shenden,

The API will return \n for new lines. You can sub those out with whatever you're doing in your app (ie. <p> tags if it's HTML).

Cheers.

Reply by shenden

STAFFMOD

on February 18, 2016 at 8:38 AM

Hey Travis! Thanks for the quick response!

Yeah I guessed it was something like that, but I still don't get exactly how? Im writing out the data this way: var jjBio = '

' + data.biography + '

'; And it still gives me the same problem. Where do I put the

? Sorry again, Im really new at this.

Reply by Travis Bell

STAFFMOD

on February 18, 2016 at 8:44 PM

Hi Shenden,

There's a few ways you can do this. I am most familiar with Ruby so I can really only provide some examples with it.

Lets say you had a string:

2.2.3 :016 > string = "This is a biography and the first line.\n\nThis is the second line."
 => "This is a biography and the first line.\n\nThis is the second line."

You could do:

2.2.3 :017 > string.split("\n\n").map { |a| a.prepend('<p>').concat('</p>') }.join
 => "<p>This is a biography and the first line.</p><p>This is the second line.</p>"

You could also use something like Markdown, which is what I actually do on the website (using RedCarpet):

2.2.3 :018 > Redcarpet::Markdown.new(Redcarpet::Render::HTML).render(string)
 => "<p>This is a biography and the first line.</p>\n\n<p>This is the second line.</p>\n"

Hope that helps.

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