html 2 plain text

Mon May 29 02:44:16 EDT 2006

robin <robin.meier at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
> i remember seeing this simple python function which would take raw html
> and output the content (body?) of the page as plain text (no <..> tags
> etc)
> i have been looking at htmllib and htmlparser but this all seems to
> complicated for what i'm looking for. i just need the main text in the
> body of some arbitrary webbpage to then do some natural-language
> processing with it...
> thanks for pointing me to some helpful resources!

text=re.sub(r'(?s)\<.+?\>', '', html_text)
(this will keep html entities, though)

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