WP REST API remove the Wordpress shortcodes from the JSON wp/v2/posts content->rendered

Question

I'm trying to get rid of the shortcodes that wordpress gives me when i use the WP REST API. I already managed to remove the HTML tags by editing the class-wp-rest-posts-controller.php by using strip_tags(). But i don't seem to find a solution for the short codes.

I tried several solutions that did not work. like write this code on the functions.php

// Removes Divi shortcodes
$content = preg_replace('/\[\/?et_pb.*?\]/', '', $content);

or that

$content = strip_tags( do_shortcode( $post->post_content ) );

I'm maybe doing something wrong I'm kinda new at this. if you guys could help me it would be awesome.

Answer 1

This is unnecessary, WordPress already provides the fully rendered HTML content in REST responses with the shortcodes already processed and turned into HTML. Inside the object the API responds with is a content field that has a rendered sub-field containing what you want. Use that instead of the raw unprocessed version.