Delinkify

delinkify.py

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
import bleach

def _delinkify(self, text):
    """
    Converts <a href="http:my.url">Text</a> to
    <a href="http:my.url">Text: http:my.url</a>
    """
    soup = BeautifulSoup(text)
    for link in soup.find_all('a'):
        link.insert_after(
            soup.new_string(u': {0}'.format(link.get('href')))
        )
    return soup
    
    
# Remove all the html tags
tpl_txt = bleach.clean(
    _delinkify(tpl_html),
    tags=[], attributes=[], styles=[], strip=True,
)