{"categories":[{"label":"HTML","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/text-processing-markup-html"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Converts HTML to clean, readable plain text or Markdown-formatted output, with options to customize link handling, escaping, and code block marking.","skillfed_tags":["html-parsing","markdown-generation","text-extraction"],"use_cases":["Extract readable text from web pages or HTML emails for archival or plain-text distribution.","Convert HTML documentation to Markdown for version control and static site generators.","Batch-process HTML files into text format for downstream NLP or text analysis tasks.","Generate reference-style Markdown from HTML with customizable link formatting.","Strip HTML markup while preserving semantic structure for accessibility or readability tools."],"what_it_does":"html2text is a command-line tool and Python library that transforms HTML into plain ASCII text formatted as valid Markdown. It strips HTML markup while preserving document structure\u2014bold, italic, links, code blocks, and other semantic elements are converted to their Markdown equivalents. The tool offers fine-grained control over output through options like link handling (ignore, reference-style, or inline), special character escaping, and code block marking.\n\nThe package has zero runtime dependencies and works as both a standalone script (invoked with `html2text [filename]`) and as an importable Python module. It supports modern Python versions (3.9 through 3.13) on CPython and PyPy, making it suitable for integration into text processing pipelines, documentation generators, or any workflow that needs to extract readable content from HTML.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need HTML-to-text or HTML-to-Markdown conversion without external dependencies. The package is stable, widely used (top 5000 on PyPI), and has no known vulnerabilities. The aging maintenance status (last release 486 days ago) is a minor concern for new feature requests but does not block routine use. Avoid if you require active, frequent updates or have strict copyleft license restrictions in your project."},"id":"html2text","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/html2text","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/html2text.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/html2text/"},"maintenance":{"status":"aging"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2025-04-15","license_spdx":"GPL-3.0-or-later","license_treatment":"copyleft","name":"html2text","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Turn HTML into equivalent Markdown-structured text."},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":15159925,"position":1197,"tier":"top_5000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2025.4.15"}