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html-to-text Convert HTML to plain text preserving line breaks

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Input0 chars
Output0 chars

Examples

Convert an HTML email to readable plain text

Usage
"<div style="font-family:Arial">Hi team,</div><div><br></div>..." | html-to-text

Extract text from an HTML newsletter preserving structure

Usage
"<p>Welcome to our newsletter!</p><p>Here&rsquo;s what&apos;s..." | html-to-text

Get plain text from an HTML calendar invite

Usage
"<table><tr><td>Meeting:</td><td>Monday 9am</td></tr></table>..." | html-to-text
View source 
(input)=>{
                let out = input;
                out = out.replace(/<\/(p|div|tr|table|blockquote|h[1-6])>/gi, "\n\n");
                out = out.replace(/<br\s*\/?>/gi, "\n");
                out = out.replace(/<li[^>]*>/gi, "\n- ");
                out = out.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, "");
                out = out.replace(/&nbsp;/gi, " ");
                out = out.replace(/&amp;/g, "&");
                out = out.replace(/&lt;/g, "<");
                out = out.replace(/&gt;/g, ">");
                out = out.replace(/&quot;/g, '"');
                out = out.replace(/&#39;/g, "'");
                out = out.replace(/&#(\d+);/g, (_, n)=>String.fromCharCode(n));
                out = out.replace(/&#x([0-9a-f]+);/gi, (_, h)=>String.fromCharCode(parseInt(h, 16)));
                return out;
            }

Suggested Pipelines

$ html-to-text | normalize-quotes | trim-lines | squeeze $ html-to-text | word-freq $ html-to-text | wc

Also useful for

Clean Email Fit Context Window Count Markdown Words Clean HTML to Text HTML Word Frequency HTML to Plain Text

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