HTML → Text Extractor
Remove HTML tags and cleanly extract only the body text.
Category: Converters
When to use?
Use it when you need only the text from a web page source or email HTML, to move newsletter/product descriptions to text, or to clean HTML-mixed data into plain text.
How to use
- Paste HTML code into the input.
- Unnecessary elements like script/style are removed and only the body is extracted.
- Optionally enable showing link URLs and blank-line cleanup, then copy.
Input Explanation
Paste all or part of HTML code with tags. script, style, and noscript elements are auto-excluded.
Calculation Basis
It parses the HTML with the browser DOM parser, removes tags, and extracts only text nodes. Block elements like paragraphs, headings, and lists are separated by line breaks for readability.
Usage Examples
- Extract web page body - Get only the body text from HTML source, excluding ads and menus.
- Clean email HTML - Move text content from a newsletter or email HTML to text.
- Preprocess data - Convert HTML-mixed data into plain text easy to analyze and store.
Examples
- <p>Hi <strong>there</strong></p> → Hi there
- Show link URLs option: <a href="https://...">Menu</a> → Menu (https://...)
Cautions
- Malformed source data can cause parsing errors or broken output.
- A mismatched encoding standard or complex nested data may break or drop the structure.
Guides
How tags are removed
It parses HTML with the browser DOM parser and collects only text nodes. script, style, and noscript elements are not body content and are excluded.
Line breaks and links
Block elements like paragraphs, headings, and lists are separated by line breaks. Links keep only text by default, but an option can show the address in parentheses.
FAQ
Can I see link addresses too?
Yes. Enable "show link URLs" to show the URL in parentheses after the link text.
How are line breaks handled?
Block elements like paragraphs, headings, and lists are separated by line breaks, and the blank-line option reduces consecutive blanks.
Does code inside script appear?
No. The content of script, style, and noscript elements is excluded.
Is the HTML sent to a server?
No. All conversion happens only in the browser.
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