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HTML to text

html2text is a Python package that converts a page of HTML into clean, easy-to-read plain ASCII text.

The ASCII also happens to be a valid Markdown (a text-to-HTML format).

%pip install --upgrade --quiet html2text
from langchain_community.document_loaders import AsyncHtmlLoader

urls = ["https://www.espn.com", "https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-agent/"]
loader = AsyncHtmlLoader(urls)
docs = loader.load()
API Reference:AsyncHtmlLoader
USER_AGENT environment variable not set, consider setting it to identify your requests.
Fetching pages: 100%|##########| 2/2 [00:00<00:00, 14.74it/s]
from langchain_community.document_transformers import Html2TextTransformer

urls = ["https://www.espn.com", "https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2023-06-23-agent/"]
html2text = Html2TextTransformer()
docs_transformed = html2text.transform_documents(docs)

print(docs_transformed[0].page_content[1000:2000])

print(docs_transformed[1].page_content[1000:2000])
API Reference:Html2TextTransformer
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