HTML to Text

Convert HTML to plain readable text using MinerU. Strips HTML markup and extracts clean text content from web pages and HTML files. Features: HTML to text conversion. Removes all markup while preserving readable structure. Outputs Markdown as the closest plain-text format. JSON output mode for pure text fields. Works with local files and URLs. Use when you need to: convert HTML to plain text, strip markup from a web page, extract readable text from HTML, get text content from an HTML file. Use when asked: 'how do I get text from HTML', 'strip HTML tags', 'I want plain text from this web page', 'can my agent extract text from HTML', 'is there a skill for HTML to text conversion'. Built on MinerU by OpenDataLab (Shanghai AI Lab), an open-source document intelligence engine. Ideal for search indexing, NLP pipelines, text analysis, and any workflow that needs clean text from HTML sources.

Extract plain readable text from HTML files or web pages using MinerU. MinerU outputs Markdown as the closest format to plain text.

Install

npm install -g mineru-open-api
# or via Go (macOS/Linux):
go install github.com/opendatalab/MinerU-Ecosystem/cli/mineru-open-api@latest

Quick Start

# Extract text from a local HTML file (requires token)
mineru-open-api extract page.html -o ./out/

# Extract text from a web page (requires token)
mineru-open-api crawl https://example.com/article

# JSON output contains text fields (requires token)
mineru-open-api extract page.html -f json -o ./out/

Authentication

Token required:

mineru-open-api auth             # Interactive token setup
export MINERU_TOKEN="your-token" # Or via environment variable

Create token at: https://mineru.net/apiManage/token

Capabilities

• Supported input: local .html file or web page URL
• HTML requires extract or crawl (token required) — not supported by flash-extract
• MinerU does not have a -f text option; Markdown is the closest plain-text output
• For truly plain text: use extract -f json and read the text fields from JSON output
• Language hint with --language (default: ch, use en for English)

Notes

• MinerU has no -f text format; use Markdown output or -f json for text fields
• HTML is NOT supported by flash-extract
• Output goes to stdout by default; use -o <dir> to save to a file or directory
• All progress/status messages go to stderr; document content goes to stdout
• MinerU is open-source by OpenDataLab (Shanghai AI Lab): https://github.com/opendatalab/MinerU