HTML Tag Stripper

Remove HTML tags and extract clean text content

Key Facts

Category: Text Processing
Input Types: textarea, checkbox, text
Output Type: text
Sample Coverage: 4
API Ready: Yes

Overview

The HTML Tag Stripper is a precise utility designed to remove HTML markup from your content, leaving behind only clean, readable text. Whether you are processing web scrapes, cleaning up CMS exports, or preparing data for analysis, this tool ensures your text is free from unnecessary code and formatting artifacts.

When to Use

•Extracting plain text from raw HTML source code for documentation or reports.
•Cleaning up messy web-scraped data before importing it into a database or spreadsheet.
•Sanitizing content by removing embedded script and style tags to ensure text-only output.

How It Works

•Paste your raw HTML code into the input area.
•Select your preferred formatting options, such as preserving line breaks or decoding HTML entities.
•Click the process button to instantly strip the tags and generate your clean text output.

Use Cases

Converting web articles into plain text for offline reading or note-taking apps.

Preparing scraped website data for natural language processing (NLP) tasks.

Cleaning legacy CMS content exports to remove outdated inline styles and markup.

Examples

1. Cleaning Scraped Blog Content

Content Researcher

Background: A researcher scraped several blog posts to analyze keywords, but the data was cluttered with <div>, <span>, and <script> tags.
Problem: The raw HTML made it impossible to perform accurate word counts or keyword analysis.
How to Use: Paste the scraped HTML into the input, ensure 'Remove Script & Style Tags' is checked, and click process.
Outcome: The tool returned a clean, readable text file ready for immediate keyword analysis.

2. Extracting Text for Email Newsletters

Email Marketer

Background: The marketing team needed to repurpose a web-based announcement for a plain-text email blast.
Problem: The original source contained complex layout tags that would break the plain-text email format.
How to Use: Input the HTML, enable 'Preserve Line Breaks', and set 'Decode HTML Entities' to ensure symbols like © appear correctly.
Outcome: A perfectly formatted plain-text version of the announcement that preserves the original paragraph structure.

Try with Samples

html, video, text

HTML with Images Samples

HTML source code samples with images for testing extraction

title token html

text

Docker Image Tag Samples

Collection of Docker image references with various registries, repositories, tags, and digests

title token tag

text

Text with Emoji Samples

Mixed language text containing various Unicode emojis for testing emoji extraction

matched family video,text

video, text

Duplicate Line Samples

Sample files with various types of duplicate lines for testing duplicate removal tools

matched family video,text

video, text

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FAQ

Can I keep specific tags like paragraphs or line breaks?

Yes, you can use the 'Keep These Tags' field to specify which tags should remain in the output, and toggle the 'Preserve Line Breaks' option to maintain document structure.

Does this tool remove JavaScript and CSS?

Yes, the 'Remove Script & Style Tags' option is enabled by default to ensure that all embedded scripts and styles are completely stripped from the final text.

What happens to special characters like &?

If 'Decode HTML Entities' is enabled, the tool automatically converts these entities into their standard character equivalents (e.g., & becomes &).

Is there a limit to how much HTML I can process?

The tool is designed to handle large blocks of text, but performance may vary depending on your browser's memory capacity for very large inputs.

Does this tool store my data?

No, all processing is performed locally in your browser, ensuring your data remains private and secure.

API Documentation

Request Endpoint

POST /en/api/tools/html-tag-stripper

Request Parameters

Parameter Name	Type	Required	Description
html	textarea	Yes	-
preserveWhitespace	checkbox	No	Keep multiple spaces and formatting
preserveLineBreaks	checkbox	No	Keep paragraph and line break structure
decodeEntities	checkbox	No	Convert & < > etc. to their characters
removeScriptStyle	checkbox	No	Completely remove JavaScript and CSS content
customKeepTags	text	No	Tags to preserve (comma-separated tag names)

Response Format

{
  "result": "Processed text content",
  "error": "Error message (optional)",
  "message": "Notification message (optional)",
  "metadata": {
    "key": "value"
  }
}

Text: Text

AI MCP Documentation

Add this tool to your MCP server configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "elysiatools-html-tag-stripper": {
      "name": "html-tag-stripper",
      "description": "Remove HTML tags and extract clean text content",
      "baseUrl": "https://elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=html-tag-stripper",
      "command": "",
      "args": [],
      "env": {},
      "isActive": true,
      "type": "sse"
    }
  }
}

You can chain multiple tools, e.g.: `https://elysiatools.com/mcp/sse?toolId=png-to-webp,jpg-to-webp,gif-to-webp`, max 20 tools.

If you encounter any issues, please contact us at [email protected]

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