How to "clean" HTML for JSON

[vierless_julian]

Hi guys,

I am new here and was thinking maybe someone in the community already came across this issue.

We have a form on our website with a message field. My goal is to take the content of that field and send it to Pipedrive as a note. This works via API call and everything is good with some exceptions.
Sometimes the automation fails and disables itself because of an error. It tells me that the “content” string inside of the JSON body is empty. In the logs I can see that it has content (HTML). Now my guess is that I need to “clean” the HTML content of the message field before sending it to the API.

Does anyone know how to do that?

Here you can read the API documentation of Pipedrive considering the “notes” topic:
https://developers.pipedrive.com/docs/api/v1/Notes#addNote

[samliew]

Welcome to the Make community!

Are you manually building the JSON yourself? You’ll have to escape or replace special characters like double quotes and newlines.

Some ways of doing that is use the built-in functions stripHTML and escapeHTML

or you can use the HTML to text module

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