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html2text/html2text
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Converts HTML to formatted plain text
4.3.2(1y ago)59036.6M↓22.5%176[15 issues](https://github.com/mtibben/html2text/issues)[4 PRs](https://github.com/mtibben/html2text/pulls)20GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPCI failing
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Html2Text
=========
[](#html2text)
A PHP library for converting HTML to formatted plain text.
[](https://github.com/mtibben/html2text/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
Installing
----------
[](#installing)
```
composer require html2text/html2text
```
Basic Usage
-----------
[](#basic-usage)
```
$html = new \Html2Text\Html2Text('Hello, "world"');
echo $html->getText(); // Hello, "WORLD"
```
History
-------
[](#history)
This library started life on the blog of Jon Abernathy
A number of projects picked up the library and started using it - among those was RoundCube mail. They made a number of updates to it over time to suit their webmail client.
Now it has been extracted as a standalone library. Hopefully it can be of use to others.
### Health Score
59
—
FairBetter than 98% of packages
Maintenance31
Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained
Popularity73
Solid adoption and visibility
Community51
Growing community involvement
Maturity71
Established project with proven stability
Bus Factor1
Top contributor holds 60.1% of commits — single point of failure
How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.
**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.
**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.
**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.
### Release Activity
Cadence
Every ~278 days
Recently: every ~550 days
Total
15
Last Release
682d ago
Major Versions
1.0.1 → 2.0.02014-10-18
2.0.1 → 3.0.02015-10-11
3.1.0 → 4.0.02016-02-22
### Community
Maintainers
[mtibben](/maintainers/mtibben)
[wolfwolker](/maintainers/wolfwolker)
---
Top Contributors
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### Code Quality
TestsPHPUnit
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