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id: rich-text-renderer
version: "0.2.8"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# rich-text-renderer — Contentful Rich Text Renderer

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 358.3K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This package transforms Contentful RichText field data—a structured document format from Contentful's content delivery API—into renderable output, defaulting to HTML. It works by walking a tree of content nodes (paragraphs, headings, links, embedded entries, etc.) and applying a handler to each node type. The rendering logic is fully customizable: you can override any node handler to serialize to plain text, Markdown, JSON, or any other format you need.

It's designed to pair with the Contentful Delivery SDK and handles the common case where you fetch RichText content from Contentful and need to display it in a web app or other output medium. The library includes sensible HTML defaults but requires you to implement custom renderers for embedded entries (e.g., product cards, author bios) since only you know your content model.

Use it for:

- Render Contentful blog post bodies to HTML for display on a website
- Convert RichText documents to plain text for search indexing or email previews
- Implement custom rendering for embedded Contentful entries (e.g., product references within marketing copy)
- Serialize RichText to Markdown or a custom markup format for downstream processing
- Handle unknown or future node types gracefully by providing a fallback renderer

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Converts Contentful RichText field data into HTML or custom formats by rendering a tree of content nodes with overridable handlers for each node type.

Yes. This is a focused, stable library with no dependencies, active maintenance, and a permissive license. Install it if you're using Contentful's RichText field type and need to render or transform that content in Python. The customizable renderer design makes it suitable for both simple HTML output and complex content workflows.

## Install

pip install rich-text-renderer
uv add rich-text-renderer
poetry add rich-text-renderer

## Installing rich-text-renderer

Before you install: Low friction: pure Python wheel with no runtime dependencies. Actively maintained; last commit 2026-08-08, marked Production/Stable. No known vulnerabilities.

License in practice: MIT license (permissive). You may use, modify, and distribute this package freely in commercial or private projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

from rich_text_renderer import RichTextRenderer

renderer = RichTextRenderer()
html_output = renderer.render(document)

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package works with modern Python versions beyond 3.9 (classifiers list ends at 3.9; current support status unclear)
- Performance characteristics when rendering large or deeply nested RichText documents
- Compatibility with recent versions of the Contentful Delivery SDK

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 358.3K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

contentful rich text to html, render contentful richtext, contentful cms content rendering, richtext node serialization, contentful delivery sdk integration, custom content node renderers, contentful embedded entry rendering, contentful, content-delivery, markup-rendering

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