small http server, receives an html string and returns it converted into text (without: tags, links, tables, images, etc)

cleaner.py

from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import html2text


class Handler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_POST(self):
        try:
            data = self.rfile.read(int(self.headers['Content-Length'])).decode("utf-8")
            content = h.handle(data.strip()).strip()
            print(content)
            self.send_response(200)
        except Exception as exc:
            print(exc)
            self.send_response(500)
            content = "ERROR converter"

        self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(content)))
        self.send_header("Content-Type", "text/html")
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(bytes(content, "utf-8"))


h = html2text.HTML2Text()
h.ignore_links = True
h.bypass_tables = True
h.ignore_images = True
h.ignore_anchors = True
h.ignore_emphasis = True

with HTTPServer(('', 8007), Handler) as server:
    server.serve_forever()

exploring using it as a little service to convert Mastodon's API html content to plain text and showing the result on a small LCD screen connected to a Raspberry Pi Pico W.