Text / Formatter

Clean up, reshape, search or encode a piece of text, without writing code.

What it does

You pick an Operation and point Text at your value, for example {{ $input.title }}. The node then does one thing to that text:

• Change case: Uppercase, Lowercase, Title Case, camelCase, snake_case, kebab-case. The last three understand spaces, punctuation and existing camelCase, so Order ID number becomes order_id_number.
• Shape: Trim (remove spaces at both ends), Pad, Replace, Split, Join, Slugify, Truncate, Default if empty.
• Find: Extract emails, Extract URLs, Extract numbers, Extract phone numbers return every match, not just the first.
• Count: Word count, Character count. An emoji or accented letter counts as one character.
• Encode or Decode with a Scheme: Base64, URL (whole URL), URI component, HTML entities or Hex. Accented letters and emoji survive a round trip.

Slugify turns Héllo, Wörld! into hello-world, which is handy for file names and links.

When to use it

• Tidy scraped text before you save or send it: trim it, fix its case, or replace a placeholder.
• Pull every email address or link out of a page’s text.
• Build a file name or link from a title with Slugify.
• Encode a value for a link with URI component, or decode Base64 text from an API.
• For patterns of your own and named fields, use Regex instead.

Inputs and settings

22 choices · pick operation to see its settings

UppercaseLowercaseTitle CasecamelCasesnake_casekebab-caseTrimSlugifyExtract emailsExtract URLsExtract numbersExtract phone numbersWord countCharacter countPadReplaceSplitJoinTruncateDefault if emptyEncodeDecode

Settings for Uppercase

Setting	Type	What it does
Text	Value	The text to transform. Bind an upstream value with {{ }}.

Showing settings for Uppercase

Every operation has Operation (default Uppercase) and Text. Some show extra settings:

Operation	Extra settings
Pad	Target Length (default 0), Pad With (default a space), Pad Side (Start or End)
Replace	Find, Replace With, Treat Find As Regex (default off), Regex Flags (default g)
Split	Separator (default ,). Empty splits into single characters.
Join	Separator (default ,), placed between the joined entries
Truncate	Maximum Length (default 20), Ellipsis (default …), added only when the text is cut
Default if empty	Default Value, returned when the text is empty or only spaces
Encode, Decode	Scheme (default Base64)

• Replace without regex replaces every occurrence of Find. With Treat Find As Regex on, the default g flag also replaces every match; add i (gi) to ignore case.
• Join expects Text to be a list, such as {{ $input.tags }}. A single text value comes back unchanged.
• URL (whole URL) leaves :/?#&= alone, so it is safe on a full address. URI component escapes them too; use it for one value inside a link.

Outputs

• Output

The field depends on the operation:

• result: the new text for case, shaping, Encode and Decode operations. For Split it is a list.
• matches: the list of everything found by an Extract operation. It is an empty list when nothing matched.
• count: the number from Word count or Character count.

The output holds only that field. To keep the original data next to it, read it from the earlier node with an expression such as {{ $('HTML Extract').title }}.

Dependencies and credentials

None. This node needs no connection and has no slots for other nodes.

Example workflow

1. Get Selected Text with Output field name selection reads the text you highlighted on a page.
2. Text / Formatter with Operation Extract emails and Text {{ $input.selection }}. Every address comes back in matches.
3. A second Text / Formatter with Operation Join, Text {{ $input.matches }} and Separator , gives one line of addresses in result.
4. A Slack node posts {{ $input.result }}.

Common issues

• “Invalid base64: could not decode the input as UTF-8 text.” The text is not Base64, or it is Base64 of a file rather than text. Check that you picked the right Scheme.
• “Invalid hex: expected an even number of hex digits.” or “Invalid hex: contains non-hexadecimal characters.” The text is not a clean hex string. Remove spaces or prefixes such as 0x.
• “Invalid URL encoding: malformed percent-escape sequence.” (or Invalid URI component). A % in the text is not followed by two hex digits. Check the text was really encoded.
• Replace fails with an invalid regular expression error. Treat Find As Regex is on and Find has a syntax error, or Regex Flags holds a letter that is not a flag. Turn the option off to replace plain text.
• matches is empty. Nothing in the text looks like an email, link, number or phone number. Phone numbers must be at least seven characters long and start and end with a digit; links must start with http:// or https://.

Related nodes

• Regex: your own patterns, with named groups as fields.
• Edit Fields: put the result back next to the other fields.
• Crypto: hashes and signatures rather than encodings.