htmltextconvert: HTML to plain text converter

htmltextconvert renders HTML to plain text, for example to autogenerate a plain text versions of HTML emails, or to index HTML documents for search.

It differs from other packages in these ways:

• Pure Python, no dependencies

• High quality, well tested code

• Permissive license (Apache)

• Renders the HTML to text suitable for an text/plain email body (it doesn’t aim to convert to a structured text format like markdown, but rather at giving a readable text-only representation of the rendered HTML).

Usage:

>>> import htmltextconvert
>>> print(
...     htmltextconvert.html_to_text(
...         """
...         <p>This is a paragraph.</p>
...         <p>This is another paragraph.</p>
...         """
...     )
... )
This is a paragraph

This is another paragraph

htmltextconvert handles the following HTML tags:

• Character entity references (&name;, &#nnnn;, &#xhhhh)

• Unordered lists (<ul>)

• Ordered lists (<ol>)

• Paragraphs (<p>)

• Block quotes (<blockquote>)

• Linebreaks (<br>)

• Links (<a href="…">)

• Bold (<strong>)

• Italic (<em>)

• Code (<code>)