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html2text

THE ASCIINATOR

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

Try

Enter the address of the web page you'd like to convert.

Example sites: aaronsw.com, daringfireball.net.

Bookmarklet: 2text

Buy

html2text is available under the GNU GPL 2.0.

Download: html2text.py

History

2004-03-27: html2text-2.01a.py. fix bug w/ charrefs in links. tx Ian G.
2004-03-19: html2text-2.0a.py. complete rewrite, supports Markdown
2003-03-16: html2text-1.0.py. port to Python
2000-06-19: html2text.tcl (with Lars Pind)

Aaron Swartz (html2text@aaronsw.com)