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sane text extraction given html string, using BeautifulSoup
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| from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs | |
| def html2text(html): | |
| soup = bs(html, features='lxml') | |
| for script in soup(["script", "style"]): | |
| script.decompose() | |
| for br in soup.find_all("br"): | |
| br.replace_with("\n") | |
| return soup.get_text(separator=' ').strip() |
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