HTMLTextConverter
Turn an HTML page into clean text right on this page. Upload a saved .html file or paste the source, and the reader strips scripts, styles and hidden elements in your browser while keeping headings, paragraphs, lists and tables as plain text. Nothing is uploaded.
Turn an HTML page into text here
Runs in your browser. The file stays on your device and nothing is uploaded.
Drop a saved .html file here, choose one from your device, or paste the page's source below.
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How It Works
Choose a saved .html file, drop it on the reader at the top of this page, or paste a page's source. It stays in your browser.
Your browser's own parser reads the HTML without running its scripts or loading its images, stylesheets or frames.
The reader takes the page's main element, or its only article. When the page has neither, it takes the whole body and leaves out nav, aside and footer elements.
Scripts, styles, form controls and hidden elements are dropped. Headings, paragraphs and list items keep their own lines, table cells are separated by tabs, and preformatted text keeps its spacing.
Copy the text or download it as a .txt file. For pages across a whole site, the API code below runs an extractor on Mixpeek's servers.
Code Examples
import os, requests
API = "https://api.mixpeek.com"
H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['MIXPEEK_API_KEY']}",
"X-Namespace": os.environ["NAMESPACE_ID"]}
# 1. a bucket, with a schema that declares the field you will send
bucket = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets", headers=H, json={
"bucket_name": "html-inputs",
"bucket_schema": {"properties": {"html": {"type": "text"}}},
}).json()
# 2. land the file as an object. the URL goes in data, on the blob
requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/objects", headers=H, json={
"key_prefix": "run-1",
"blobs": [{"property": "html", "type": "text",
"data": "https://example.com/page.html"}],
})
# 3. a collection over that bucket, running the extractor
collection = requests.post(f"{API}/v1/collections", headers=H, json={
"collection_name": "html-to-text",
"source": {"type": "bucket", "bucket_ids": [bucket["bucket_id"]]},
"feature_extractor": {"feature_extractor_name": "web_scraper", "version": "v1"},
}).json()
# 4. run extraction over the bucket
requests.post(f"{API}/v1/buckets/{bucket['bucket_id']}/batches", headers=H, json={
"collection_ids": [collection["collection_id"]],
"auto_submit": True,
})
# 5. read the output
docs = requests.get(
f"{API}/v1/collections/{collection['collection_id']}/documents", headers=H
).json()
print(docs)Use Cases
Supported Input Formats
Quick Info
Run it over a library
Mixpeek runs this conversion as a pipeline over a whole library in your object storage, with the output landing as queryable documents. The reader on this page handles one file at a time.
Frequently Asked Questions
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