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voku/html2text
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Only a Fork of -> html2text: Converts HTML to formatted plain text
5.0.5(2mo ago)38342.7k↓50.3%8[1 PRs](https://github.com/voku/html2text/pulls)2GPL-2.0-or-laterPHPPHP >=7.1.0CI passing
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📝 Html2Text
===========
[](#memo-html2text)
### Description
[](#description)
Convert HTML to formatted plain text, e.g. for text mails.
### Installation
[](#installation)
The recommended installation way is through [Composer](https://getcomposer.org).
```
$ composer require voku/html2text
```
### Basic Usage
[](#basic-usage)
```
$html = new \voku\Html2Text\Html2Text('Hello, "world"');
echo $html->getText(); // Hello, "WORLD"
```
### Extended Usage
[](#extended-usage)
Each element (h1, li, div, etc) can have the following options:
- 'case' => convert case (`Html2Text::OPTION_NONE, Html2Text::OPTION_UPPERCASE, Html2Text::OPTION_LOWERCASE , Html2Text::OPTION_UCFIRST, Html2Text::OPTION_TITLE`)
- 'prepend' => prepend a string
- 'append' => append a string
For example:
```
$html = 'Should have "AAA" changed to BBB• Custom bullet should be removed';
$expected = 'SHOULD HAVE "BBB" CHANGED TO BBB' . "\n\n" . '- Custom bullet should be removed |' . "\n\n" . '[IMAGE]: "The Linux Tux"';
$html2text = new Html2Text(
$html,
array(
'width' => 0,
'elements' => array(
'h1' => array(
'case' => Html2Text::OPTION_UPPERCASE,
'replace' => array('AAA', 'BBB')),
'li' => array(
'case' => Html2Text::OPTION_NONE,
'replace' => array('•', ''),
'prepend' => "- ",
'append' => " |",
),
),
)
);
$html2text->setPrefixForImages('[IMAGE]: ');
$html2text->setPrefixForLinks('[LINKS]: ');
$html2text->getText(); // === $expected
```
### Live Demo
[](#live-demo)
- [HTML](https://suckup.de/2016/01/was-habe-ich-als-fachinformatiker-bisher-gelernt/) | [TEXT](https://moelleken.org/url_to_text.php?url=https://suckup.de/2016/01/was-habe-ich-als-fachinformatiker-bisher-gelernt/)
- [https://moelleken.org/url\_to\_text.php?url=https://ADD\_YOUR\_URL\_HERE](https://moelleken.org/url_to_text.php?url=https://ADD_YOUR_URL_HERE)
### 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 this is a extend fork of the original [Html2Text](https://github.com/mtibben/html2text).
### Support
[](#support)
For support and donations please visit [Github](https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8/) | [Issues](https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8/issues) | [PayPal](https://paypal.me/moelleken) | [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/voku).
For status updates and release announcements please visit [Releases](https://github.com/voku/portable-utf8/releases) | [Twitter](https://twitter.com/suckup_de) | [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/voku/posts).
For professional support please contact [me](https://about.me/voku).
### Thanks
[](#thanks)
- Thanks to [GitHub](https://github.com) (Microsoft) for hosting the code and a good infrastructure including Issues-Managment, etc.
- Thanks to [IntelliJ](https://www.jetbrains.com) as they make the best IDEs for PHP and they gave me an open source license for PhpStorm!
- Thanks to [GitHub Actions](https://github.com/features/actions) for the automated CI pipeline.
- Thanks to [StyleCI](https://styleci.io/) for the simple but powerful code style check.
- Thanks to [PHPStan](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) && [Psalm](https://github.com/vimeo/psalm) for really great Static analysis tools and for discover bugs in the code!
### Health Score
63
—
FairBetter than 99% of packages
Maintenance93
Actively maintained with recent releases
Popularity46
Moderate usage in the ecosystem
Community27
Small or concentrated contributor base
Maturity73
Established project with proven stability
Bus Factor1
Top contributor holds 50.2% 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 ~90 days
Recently: every ~686 days
Total
51
Last Release
70d ago
Major Versions
1.0.1 → 2.0.02014-10-18
2.0.1 → 3.0.02015-07-16
3.4.12 → 4.0.02017-11-19
4.0.0 → 5.0.02017-12-23
PHP version history (3 changes)3.0.0PHP >=5.3.0
4.0.0PHP >=7.0.0
5.0.5PHP >=7.1.0
### Community
Maintainers
[voku](/maintainers/voku)
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