Strips HTML from the input, outputs plain text. It is streamed in realtime without preloading the whole document.
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Easy to use Writer interface:
io.Copy(&htmlstrip.Writer{W: os.Stdout}, os.Stdin) -
All it does is strip HTML into plain text.
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Should never use excessive memory as it does not buffer the whole document.
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Script, style and head tags are removed entirely, as they are not part of the page's text.
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The provided command strips HTML from standard input or specified files, writes plain text to standard output.
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Could be used as an extremely basic, non-interactive text browser:
curl -s -S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchilla | htmlstrip | less