@kszongic/html2text-cli

Strip HTML tags and decode entities — convert HTML to plain text from the command line.

Zero dependencies. Works with files or stdin.

Install

npm install -g @kszongic/html2text-cli

Usage

# Convert a file
html2text page.html

# Pipe from stdin
curl -s https://example.com | html2text

# Pipe from echo
echo "<h1>Hello</h1><p>World &amp; friends</p>" | html2text
# Hello
# World & friends

Features

• Strips all HTML tags
• Decodes common HTML entities (&, <, {, {, etc.)
• Removes <script> and <style> blocks
• Converts <br> and block-level tags to newlines
• Collapses excessive blank lines
• Zero dependencies

Options

| Flag | Description | |------|-------------| | -h, --help | Show help | | -v, --version | Show version |

License

MIT © 2026 kszongic