@cvp Okay. I believe that you have both given me enough information and exemplification to achieve what I am trying to do. I believe that the code particularly will be very useful to me. Thank you both very much.

Thank you for the information. I am working with HTML and I may need to reduce it to plain text for easy searching and processing later. The information is useful if I should need to reduce the HTML to plain text. Thanks again.

Yes, that helps. Thanks so much.

Hello everyone. I have some html in a string that I would like to display (rendered, not as plain text). Would someone know a quick and easy way to do this using Pythonista? I would really appreciate it. Thanks so much.

Thanks for taking the time to answer the question that I had. Thanks for the information. Have a good day.

Hello. I was able to write a preliminary version of the script to play the audio files. The script is designed to play audio files contained in a directory in the file system. It assumes that all of the files in the specified directory are audio files. It uses the “FolderPicker” class mentioned in the other topic that I opened asking how to allow the user to select a directory in the file system [1]. I am attaching the script below. The script plays the audio files fine when I run it in the Pythonista app, but when I minimize the app, the audio stops playing. I would like the audio to continue playing even if the app is minimized and I use other apps. Would anyone know if this is possible?

[1] https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/7506/allowing-the-user-to-select-a-directory-from-the-file-system

Note: I edited the original post to move the [1] reference directly below the paragraph that references it. Also, I added a change to the script to make it runnable using a pythonista URL scheme, for example “pythonista://PlayAudioDirectory?action=run&argv=audio_directory

PlayAudioDirectory.py:

import sys
import re
import dialogs
import FolderPicker
from pathlib import Path
import sound
import time

IPHONE_VOLUME_PATH = '/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/193D444B-2870-447A-A797-33D935C572B3/File Provider Storage'
ICLOUD_VOLUME_PATH = '/private/var/mobile/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs'

audioDirectory = None

if len(sys.argv) > 1:
  audioDirectory = sys.argv[1]
  audioDirectory = re.sub(r'^On My iPhone', IPHONE_VOLUME_PATH, audioDirectory)
  audioDirectory = re.sub(r'^iCloud Drive', ICLOUD_VOLUME_PATH, audioDirectory)
else:
  volume = None

  volumerChoice = dialogs.list_dialog('Select location of directory', ['This iPhone', 'iCloud'])
  if volumerChoice == 'This iPhone':
    volume = IPHONE_VOLUME_PATH
  elif volumerChoice == 'iCloud':
    volume = ICLOUD_VOLUME_PATH
    
  if volume != None:
    audioDirectory = FolderPicker.folder_picker_dialog('Please select the audio folder', root_dir = volume)

if audioDirectory != None:
  audioPath = Path(audioDirectory)
  for child in sorted(audioPath.iterdir()):
    audioFilename = str(child.resolve())
    player = sound.Player(audioFilename)
    duration = player.duration
    player.play()
    time.sleep(duration)

Okay. It is very clear. Thanks again.

Okay. I will try that. Thanks so much.

Thanks. And would you be able to tell me how I might use the “FolderPicker” script in my own script to open a directory either “On My iPhone” or on the iCloud Drive?

Would any of you know if it is possible to open a folder that is contained in the iPhone file system (“On My iPhone”) or in the iCloud Drive to play the audio files in that folder? The audio files are located in directories in both these locations.

Thanks again for your help. Have a good day again.