h2t

H2T is a Python script to convert a page of HTML into clean text file and extract all the sentences within paragraph from HTML file.

Usage: h2t.py [(filename|url) [encoding]]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --ignore-links        don't include any formatting for links
  --ignore-images       don't include any formatting for images
  -g, --google-doc      convert an html-exported Google Document
  -d, --dash-unordered-list
                        use a dash rather than a star for unordered list items
  -b BODY_WIDTH, --body-width=BODY_WIDTH
                        number of characters per output line, 0 for no wrap
  -i LIST_INDENT, --google-list-indent=LIST_INDENT
                        number of pixels Google indents nested lists
  -s, --hide-strikethrough
                        hide strike-through text. only relevent when -g is
                        specified as well

Or you can use it from within Python:

import h2t
print h2t.h2t("<p>Hello, world.</p>")

Or with some configuration options:

import h2t
h = h2t.HTML2Text()
h.ignore_links = True
print h.handle("<p>Hello, <a href='http://earth.google.com/'>world</a>!")