strip-tags 0.3

Strip tags from HTML, optionally from areas identified by CSS selectors

strip-tags

Strip tags from HTML, optionally from areas identified by CSS selectors

See llm, ttok and strip-tags—CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs for more on this project.

Installation

Install this tool using pip:

pip install strip-tags

Usage

Pipe content into this tool to strip tags from it:

cat input.html | strip-tags > output.txt

Or pass a filename:

strip-tags -i input.html > output.txt

To run against just specific areas identified by CSS selectors:

strip-tags '.content' -i input.html > output.txt

This can be called with multiple selectors:

cat input.html | strip-tags '.content' '.sidebar' > output.txt

To minify whitespace - reducing multiple space and tab characters to a single space, and multiple newlines and spaces to a maximum of two newlines - add -m or --minify:

cat input.html | strip-tags -m > output.txt

You can also run this command using python -m like this:

python -m strip_tags --help

Development

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd strip-tags
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest