Paste HTML source and get back clean, human-readable plain text with every tag stripped. Block elements like p, div, and li become line breaks, and links can keep their URL alongside the link text.
Security: HTML is parsed only with the browser's built-in DOMParser, which never attaches to the live page β so scripts never execute. The extracted result is always rendered as plain text.
Copying HTML straight from a web page or email newsletter source drags along tags, style attributes, and even embedded script code. When all you need is the readable content β for a note-taking app, a search index, or a plain-text draft β you want just the text. This tool removes every tag and keeps only what a human would actually read.
This tool parses the HTML string using the browser's built-in DOMParser. A document produced by DOMParser is "inert" β it's never attached to the live page's DOM, so any <script> inside it never runs and no images or external resources are fetched. On top of that, <script> and <style> contents are excluded from extraction entirely, and the result is always written to a textarea value, never re-rendered as HTML.
Turn on "Preserve link URLs" to append the actual href in parentheses after each link's visible text, so you know exactly where each link pointed. Block-level elements β p, div, li, tr, h1 through h6 β automatically become line breaks, so the converted text roughly keeps the original's paragraph and list structure.