Extracting text from HTML file using Python

Question

I\'d like to extract the text from an HTML file using Python. I want essentially the same output I would get if I copied the text from a browser and pasted it into notepad.

Answer 1

if you need more speed and less accuracy then you could use raw lxml.

import lxml.html as lh
from lxml.html.clean import clean_html

def lxml_to_text(html):
    doc = lh.fromstring(html)
    doc = clean_html(doc)
    return doc.text_content()