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[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) 4. / 5. masroore/html2text ActiveLibrary[Parsing & Serialization](/categories/parsing) masroore/html2text ================== A PHP package to convert HTML into a plain text format 0.0.1(3y ago)111.2k↓35.3%MITPHPPHP ^8.0 || ^8.1 Since Jun 13Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/masroore/php-html2text)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/masroore/html2text)[ Docs](https://github.com/masroore/php-html2text)[ RSS](/packages/masroore-html2text/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 1mo ago READMEChangelogDependencies (10)Versions (2)Used By (0) A PHP package to convert HTML into plain text -- no HTML tags allowed in the output. ==================================================================================== [](#a-php-package-to-convert-html-into-plain-text----no-html-tags-allowed-in-the-output) [![Latest Version on Packagist](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/c0bbf0302b60b129fccd50819fef81c0e35dd15171518d81fe77bb4819d96cd9/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f6d6173726f6f72652f68746d6c32746578742e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/masroore/html2text)[![GitHub Tests Action Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0244c95cd32c610553e49252a7229d6a6f0926975c3f8631047d18c8d6db0ac7/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f776f726b666c6f772f7374617475732f6d6173726f6f72652f7068702d68746d6c32746578742f72756e2d74657374733f6c6162656c3d7465737473)](https://github.com/masroore/php-html2text/actions?query=workflow%3Arun-tests+branch%3Amain)[![GitHub Code Style Action Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/5b650264033b028b57c4ebd1780e64bf5c3d454bef044c91eff413f3bccf80a7/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f6769746875622f776f726b666c6f772f7374617475732f6d6173726f6f72652f7068702d68746d6c32746578742f436865636b253230262532306669782532307374796c696e673f6c6162656c3d636f64652532307374796c65)](https://github.com/masroore/php-html2text/actions?query=workflow%3A%22Check+%26+fix+styling%22+branch%3Amain)[![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1941d3e409af9d9b15fc9c4e48b6271d1a98c119eb9650336e75eaf8d4cc7394/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f6d6173726f6f72652f68746d6c32746578742e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/masroore/html2text) Overview -------- [](#overview) **masroore/html2text** is a PHP package that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text. Installation ------------ [](#installation) > **Requires [PHP 8.0+](https://php.net/releases/)** You can install the package via composer: ``` composer require masroore/html2text ``` Usage ----- [](#usage) Extract text from HTML: ``` use Kaiju\Html2Text\Html2Text; $converter = new Html2Text(); echo $converter->convert($html); ``` **Callback functions** You are able to change process of formatting by providing callbacks in pre-processing, tag-replacing and post-processing: ``` # assign a pre-processing callback function. (transform href links) $converter->setPreProcessingCallback(fn (string $s) => preg_replace('%]*href=[\'"](.*?)[\'"][^>]*>([\s\S]*?)%i', '$2 ($1)', $s)); # assign a tag-replacement callback function. (replace tags) $converter->setTagReplacementCallback(fn (string $s) => preg_replace('/]*>/i', "\n- ", $s)); # post-processing hook $converter->setPostProcessingCallback(...); # process HTML echo $converter->convert($html); ``` Testing ------- [](#testing) ``` composer test ``` Changelog --------- [](#changelog) Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently. Contributing ------------ [](#contributing) Thank you for considering to contribute to Html2Text. All the contribution guidelines are mentioned [here](CONTRIBUTING.md). Security Vulnerabilities ------------------------ [](#security-vulnerabilities) Please review [our security policy](../../security/policy) on how to report security vulnerabilities. Credits ------- [](#credits) - [Masroor Ehsan](https://github.com/masroore) - [All Contributors](../../contributors) License ------- [](#license) Html2Text is an open-sourced software licensed under the [MIT license](LICENSE.md). ### Health Score 28 — LowBetter than 54% of packages Maintenance20 Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained Popularity27 Limited adoption so far Community7 Small or concentrated contributor base Maturity46 Maturing project, gaining track record Bus Factor1 Top contributor holds 100% 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 Unknown Total 1 Last Release 1436d ago ### Community Maintainers ![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/200963?v=4)[Masroor Ehsan](/maintainers/masroore)[@masroore](https://github.com/masroore) --- Top Contributors [![masroore](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/200963?v=4)](https://github.com/masroore "masroore (5 commits)") --- Tags htmlhtml-parserhtml2texthtmltexthtml2text ### Code Quality TestsPest Code StylePHP CS Fixer ### Embed Badge ![Health badge](/badges/masroore-html2text/health.svg) ``` [![Health](https://phpackages.com/badges/masroore-html2text/health.svg)](https://phpackages.com/packages/masroore-html2text) ``` ### Alternatives [masterminds/html5 An HTML5 parser and serializer. 1.8k242.8M229](/packages/masterminds-html5)[league/html-to-markdown An HTML-to-markdown conversion helper for PHP 1.9k28.6M199](/packages/league-html-to-markdown)[paquettg/php-html-parser An HTML DOM parser. 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