Html2text

html2text: Convert HTML to Plain Text

A Python script that removes HTML tags and converts HTML documents to plain text, useful for extracting text from HTML files

What is Html2text?

html2text is an open-source Python script created by Aaron Swartz that can convert HTML content into clean, easy-to-read plain text formatting. It analyzes the HTML elements in a web page or document and attempts to extract and output just the main textual content.

Some key features of html2text include:

• Removes all HTML tags and code, leaving only human-readable text
• Handles tables, images, lists, etc. and converts them into appropriate text-based formats
• Output text is formatted with line breaks and indentation to be easily readable
• Links are preserved as footnotes at the bottom
• Customizable through arguments to control things like width, links, emphasis, etc.
• Works great as part of a pipeline or cron job to turn HTML docs into clean text data

The html2text converter is useful for various purposes, such as:

• Extracting text from HTML files to use in other applications or for analysis
• Getting plain text versions of web pages to import into documents
• Converting HTML emails into nicer-looking text formats
• Archiving the text content behind websites
• Automating the scraping of text from HTML data

Overall, html2text provides a simple way to get just the main text content from HTML files with all the messy tags and code removed. The plain text output can then be much easier to use for other needs. Its customization options make it flexible for many different conversion use cases.

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