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    HTML
    Text
    Converter

    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.

    Max file size: 50 MB, read in your browser
    Estimated: Under a second, in your browser
    2 input formats

    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

    1

    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.

    2

    Your browser's own parser reads the HTML without running its scripts or loading its images, stylesheets or frames.

    3

    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.

    4

    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.

    5

    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

    Extract article text from news websites
    Clean web scraping output for NLP pipelines
    Build text datasets from web crawl data
    Prepare web content for embedding and indexing

    Supported Input Formats

    HTML
    XHTML

    Quick Info

    Categorydata
    Max File Size50 MB, read in your browser
    Est. TimeUnder a second, in your browser
    Extractorweb-scraper

    Processing millions of files?

    Run this as a managed pipeline over your whole library, no infrastructure to build or maintain. Talk to us about processing at scale.

    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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