Using JavaScript to truncate text to a certain size (8 KB)

Question

I\'m using the Zemanta API, which accepts up to 8 KB of text per call. I\'m extracting the text to send to Zemanta from Web pages using JavaScript, so I\'m looking for a fun

Answer 1

You can do something like this since unescape is partially deprecated

function byteCount( string ) {
    // UTF8
    return encodeURI(string).split(/%..|./).length - 1;
}

function truncateByBytes(string, byteSize) {
    // UTF8
    if (byteCount(string) > byteSize) {
        const charsArray = string.split('');
        let truncatedStringArray = [];
        let bytesCounter = 0;
        for (let i = 0; i < charsArray.length; i++) {
            bytesCounter += byteCount(charsArray[i]);
            if (bytesCounter <= byteSize) {
                truncatedStringArray.push(charsArray[i]);
            } else {
                break;
            }
        }
        return truncatedStringArray.join('');
    }
    return string;
}