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HTML to TXT method

In daily Internet use, we often encounter the need to grab content from web pages and convert them into text format. A common moment might be to want to grab the text content of an article from a website and save it as a TXT file for offline reading or other purposes. However, due to the incompatibility between HTML and TXT, dealing with this process may be confusing to some people. In this article, we will introduce several methods to convert HTML text to TXT format.

Method 1: Manual copy and paste

This is the simplest and most direct method: select the HTML text that needs to be converted, then right-click with the mouse and select the "Copy" option, and then open a TXT file or any text editor, right-click again and select "Paste". However, it should be noted that the copied content may contain some text formatting, such as fonts, colors, styles, etc. Therefore, careful cleaning is required after copying to TXT.

This method becomes more time-consuming and difficult if you need to crawl the content of an entire web page, rather than just a specific paragraph or line of text. In this case, we need to consider the following two methods:

Method 2: Use Python script

Python is a very popular programming language that provides us with an HTTP client library, which allows us to easily scrape the HTML content of any specific web page. We can write a simple script using Python to grab the HTML, clean the format and convert it to TXT format.

First, install Python;

Secondly, install the third-party library "BeautifulSoup":

pip install bs4

Then, write a Python script:

import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

url = 'https://example.com'
response = requests.get(url)
soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
text = soup.get_text()

with open('example.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write(text)

In this script , we first imported the requests and BeautifulSoup libraries. Next, we provide the address of the HTML web page to be crawled, and the requests library will help us obtain the content of the web page. We pass the obtained HTML content to the BeautifulSoup library and specify how it parses the HTML (here we use "html.parser"). The get_text() method extracts all text content, removes all HTML tags and formatting, and returns an object. Finally, we write this object to a new TXT file.

Method Three: Online HTML to TXT Tool

If you visit the following websites, you can use the online tools they provide to convert HTML text to TXT format:

https: //www.convertio.co/zh/html-txt/
https://www.aconvert.com/cn/document/html-to-txt/

By uploading an HTML file or pasting it directly HTML code and click the "Start Conversion" button, you can easily convert HTML text to TXT format. However, it is worth noting that for long texts that contain a lot of HTML formatting and markup, this method may lose a lot of content and is not a good way to convert.

Summary

Converting HTML text to TXT format and clearing styles and tags is a common operation, especially when using the Internet for research and learning. Whether copying operations manually or using scripts and online tools, we have multiple options for completing the process and can choose the method that works best for us.

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