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Turn HTML into equivalent Markdown-structured text.

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# [html2text](http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/)

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html2text is a Python script that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Better yet, that ASCII also happens to be valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).

Usage: html2text.py [(filename|url) [encoding]]

Options:
--version

show program’s version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--ignore-links

don’t include any formatting for links

--ignore-images

don’t include any formatting for images

-g, --google-doc

convert an html-exported Google Document

-d, --dash-unordered-list

use a dash rather than a star for unordered list items

-b BODY_WIDTH, --body-width=BODY_WIDTH

number of characters per output line, 0 for no wrap

-i LIST_INDENT, --google-list-indent=LIST_INDENT

number of pixels Google indents nested lists

-s, --hide-strikethrough

hide strike-through text. only relevent when -g is specified as well

Or you can use it from within Python:

import html2text print html2text.html2text(“<p>Hello, world.</p>”)

Or with some configuration options:

import html2text h = html2text.HTML2Text() h.ignore_links = True print h.handle(“<p>Hello, <a href=’http://earth.google.com/’>world</a>!”)

_Originally written by Aaron Swartz. This code is distributed under the GPLv3._

## How to install

html2text is available on pypi https://pypi.python.org/pypi/html2text

` $ pip install html2text `

## How to run unit tests

python test/test_html2text.py -v

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