html2text
A Python library and CLI tool that converts HTML into clean, readable Markdown-formatted plain text.
What is html2text?
html2text is a Python library and command-line utility that converts HTML into clean, readable plain text formatted as Markdown. It solves the problem of extracting meaningful text from web pages or HTML snippets while preserving formatting like bold, italics, and links in a Markdown-compatible way. This makes it useful for developers, writers, and anyone needing to transform HTML content into a more portable text format.
Python developers, technical writers, and content creators who need to programmatically convert HTML to Markdown for documentation, data processing, or content migration tasks.
Developers choose html2text for its simplicity, configurability, and dual CLI/library interface, offering a straightforward, dependency-light alternative to more complex HTML parsing tools.
Overview
Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
Use Cases
Best For
- Converting HTML email content to Markdown for documentation
- Extracting readable text from web pages during scraping projects
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